Thread:Floatingaxehead/@comment-26075126-20160707003123/@comment-28478783-20160707004816

A prophet I find very interesting is Elisha. Not a lot of people really seem to remember this poor guy, and most seem to remember Elijah, his predecessor, for what he did and was promised to do. Old Elisha was rebuked by a bunch of kids, and in a display of violence that some people who doubt God's love point a finger to, curses the horde of children and a pair of female bears maul "some forty-two of the youths." Of course, he also takes part in the story from which I draw my account's name. When one of his servants was felling a log, an iron axehead fell into the water, and the servant yells "Alas, my master! It was borrowed!" (the full story is 2 Kings 6:1-7). In this story, a basic miracle happens- an iron axehead floats. Not only does it provide a metaphor for how God has it covered, it also provides an example miracle that helps someone like me describe to another how a miracle works.