Ah’ab told Izebel all that Eliyyahu had done and all about how he had killed all the prophets with the sword, and Izebel sent an envoy to Eliyyahu saying, ‘May the gods do like this and may they do more, because this very time tomorrow I shall make your life like the life of one of them.’
He was afraid, and he set off and went for his life. He came to Be’er Sheba which belongs to Yehudah, left his boy behind there, and he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came and sat under a broom bush and asked for his life, that he might die: ‘It’s too much. Take my life now, Yahweh, because I’m no better than my ancestors.’
He lay down and slept under a broom bush. And there, an envoy touching him. He said to him, ‘Get up, eat.’ He looked, and there, by his head a loaf baked on coals and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. Yahweh’s envoy came back a second time and touched him and said, ‘Get up, eat, because the journey is too much for you.’ He got up and ate and drank, and went in the energy of that food for forty days and forty nights as far as God’s mountain, Horeb.
Goldingay, John The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.