She asked that the child be placed in a little chair, and, kneeling down to his level several feet away, held out her arms to him. He stood up and walked to her. Putting his little arms around her neck, he said, "love you."
Imagine
that your employer loved you as his own child! Imagine that the work you were doing would continually increase in reward for you and would also benefit everyone with whom you came in contact.
It dawned on me with great clarity that God, divine Love, wouldn't afflict His child, and that because His is the only power—the only cause there is—nothing else could afflict me.
The Christ reveals the tangible, present power of God, equal to every situation and always unfolding to us the spiritual idea that supplies whatever is needed.
Hagar must have believed she was in a place without God, without help. She was not realizing that, since Spirit is everywhere, there can really be no barren place.