and with what you yourself will one day gain, rather than backwards to what you have lost. God raised the widow’s son to life. Listening to Elijah’s prayer, we sense that he was a man of tenderness. He recognized the widow’s affliction and felt it acutely. He spoke to God as the one who had ‘brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge’ (1 Kings 17:20). Yet he pleaded earnestly with God, the God of the widow. He was well acquainted with the Law of Moses and with the merciful heart of God towards