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Our quote for the week, from which we are to concoct a itsy bitsy story, is

” Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.”
Sue Patten Thoele

The Something In the Nothing ( A dramatization of 2 Kings Chapter 4:1-7)

by JE Lillie

She bent to her task without a word. What was there to say? Everyone thought she was crazy.

 Miriam had called her a fool.

Havah had all but thrown her out of the house.

The widow had pleaded, “But the prophet said…”

“Prophet Smophet! You dim beggar take the bowls and go. What use have I for them when my husband and sons are dead at the hands of those Moabite pigs? But don’t you dare talk to me about a God who treats people like this.”

She could hear Havah’s words echoing in the back of her mind as she unpacked the sack full of bowls.

She could hardly blame them. Everyone had lost someone in the raids, including her.

She pushed the thought of Azariah from her mind. The exorcism of his image took conscious effort every day but it was the only way she held on to the few strands of faith she had left.

The widow plunked the bowls and vials onto her table. She lined the window sills and edges of the room with all the containers she had collected from her doubting neighbors. At last, when she was finished arranging the hodge podge collection of vessels, the prophet stepped into the room.

She thought he would wave his walking stick or utter some magic words.

Instead he nodded almost imperceptibly, smiled and said, “That’s a lot of pots.”

The widow began to pour from her tiny decanter. By sunset every bowl, vessel, pot and vial was full of oil.