A Handful of Meal

“I don’t have a cake, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
1 Kings 17:12

Reflection

She could see the bottom of the jar and she had done the arithmetic. Financial fear is rarely irrational — it is usually a correct calculation carried all the way to a conclusion no one has actually reached yet.

Pray

God, I have counted what is left and I do not like the number. Keep me from living the ending before it arrives, and give me enough steadiness to get through today's part.

Amen.

Declare

I have counted correctly and still do not know the ending.

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Today’s practice

Write the actual numbers down — what is there, what is owed, what is due when. Fear does worse math in the dark.

Open Day 1 in the app — with guided audio