As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.

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Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Our reading, Good grief, was written and read by Mike Whitmer.

2nd Kings chapter 2, verses 7 through 14. grief was written and read by Mike Whitmer. 2.2.

Verse 7 through 14.

50 men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where

Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan.

Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water with it.

The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you? Let me inherit a double

portion of your spirit, Elisha replied. You have asked a difficult thing, Elijah said. Yet if you see me

when I am taken from you, it will be yours. Otherwise, it will not.

As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire, and horses

of fire appeared and separated the two of them. And Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

Elisha solved this and cried out,

My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel.

And Elisha saw him no more.

Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

Elisha then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him

and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it.

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