When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, "Let me not look on the death of the child."
And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
Genesis 21:15-16 ESV
The food was long gone, and the water had run out, alone in the desert...all hope  was gone.
And she cried.
It's OK to cry.
Hagar's circumstances were as extreme as they get (yet sadly in our world of so much wealth and plenty, not unusual. Just like Hagar & Ishamel people are forced from their homes, to see their children die because of fear, power, greed...)
And she cried.
Sometimes we get the impression it's not OK to cry, especially as Christians, but it is.
Hagar's choicies were non existent and hope was gone. And the greater loss was of her son.
Many years later another son was abandoned to die, not because of anything he had done, not under a tree, but nailed to one.
This son had options, but didn't take them, because He loves.
Us.
#love