Wildfires rage in southern California. It's a story we've seen in the media so many times that many folks have grown desensitized to it. Evacuations again. Firefighters again leave their families and their homes to rush into danger, exhausted but fighting on to save lives and homes. Air pollution advisories. Occasional updates. It seems like a media story that someone, somewhere is hitting the "repeat" button on over and over again. Until it hits close to home... or your own

WILD HERBS 2 Kings 4:38–40 "When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was famine in the land. As the company of prophets was sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put the large pot on, and make some stew for the company of prophets." One went out into the field to gather herbs ארת (o-roth) and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds פקעת (paw-kuot) came and cut them up into the pot of pottage, not knowing what they were. The stew was poured out