Bump in the Road

Our Mandy at the beach vacation baby reveal
(It's a boy!)

"So [Elisha] answered, 'Do not fear".... then he prayed." (2 Kings 6:16-17)


Yesterday, someone may have noticed that I didn't post on Wonderful Family Storybooks. The reason? A phone call abruptly modified my to-do list down to sit and wait at the hospital.

Daughter-in-law #2 is 21 weeks along with grandson #4, and prolonged weakness and tingling in her right arm sent her to the emergency room. The neurologist spoke bluntly. "This is either nothing or this is something really bad, and we have to find out which it is." 

We prayed. 

Faithful friends prayed. 

After a battery of tests from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, and aneurism were (praise Jesus) all ruled out; and this morning, Mandy was dismissed. What appeared to be a train wreck turned out to simply be a little bump in the road.


In 2 Kings 6, horses, chariots, and a great army crept in by night and surrounded Dothan, the city of Elisha and his attendant. "Alas, my master, what shall we do?" cried the terrified servant. Elisha answered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." Then he prayed, and the Lord opened the servant's eyes: behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fires surrounding Elisha; and by the power of God Almighty, catastrophe fizzled to a little bump in the road.

Beloved, what ominous summit looms before you? Pray. Jesus, the Lord of angel armies, is able to reduce your mountain to an inconsequential molehill.