A Relatable Situation

As opposed to what I said about Sarah in my last blog post, in this post I would like to bring out an important aspect in Sarah's reaction when she hears she is going to have a baby. Naturally, when we hear things that do not make sense to us or seem completely impossible, we have certain reactions. We will sometimes laugh or cry or scream or whatever. Also, when hearing bad news, some people do not know how to take it, so they just laugh instead. Similarly, Sarah began to laugh when she heard the angels tell Avraham that she was going to have a baby. After all of these years of infertility, and now as an old woman, who would believe that they are about to have a child?! This just shows that Sarah was slightly uncomfortable with the situation and did not know how to react. As a kid, I always learned that Sarah laughed at this situation and pictured her laughing in the angel's faces, thinking, "you guys are crazy!" Now that I think about it, that seems pretty disrespectful. However, as we learned in class, she was just reacting strangely. This shows that although she was a righteous woman, who would never laugh at God and what He had to say, she was still human. She showed a quality that many of us have as well, and this makes it easy to relate to her and even look up to her as a role model.