(today’s post is not a devotion but an article adapted from a talk I gave at a women’s retreat) She’d been mistreated by her mistress. She’d not wanted to do what was asked of her, which was to cohabitate with her master. But as an Egyptian servant in a foreign land, she had no rights, no choice in the matter. Then, to add insult to injury, she was banished by that same mistress and forced to wander in the wilderness, alone and defenseless. And she was pregnant, no less. To say she felt scared,…