“And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.”
Hagar goes off and sits down about a bowshot away, saying she cannot watch the boy die, and she weeps. The distance she puts between herself and the dying boy is the distance of a mother who cannot bear what is coming. Luke 7:13 records Jesus seeing the widow of Nain weeping over her son and having compassion. The application: God does not arrive after the weeping has been resolved. He arrives in the middle of it.
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