Praise be to the Death Conqueror!

God had done miraculous things for the widow and her family through the Prophet Elijah. Enough flour and oil to live on through a drought. Then this widow's son became sick. He eventually died. "Why, O prophet, have you let this happen?" she asked. But God wasn't done bestowing miracles on this family. Elijah, harboring the same question for God, stretched himself on the boy three times -- and he became a fence-climbing, dog-chasing son again!

A second widow had heard about all the miracles the Prophet Jesus was doing. But it didn't do her any good. Her only son died. She was alone. That is, until Jesus crashed their funeral procession and told the boy to get up off the funeral bier -- and he ran to give his mother a hug! Two sisters couldn't believe tha…