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Elisha 7 Years and the Seventh Verse

What the Widow Taught Me About Oil, Time, and Candles

“The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha,
‘Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord.
But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.’”

2 Kings 4:1

Let me pause right there and tell you:

I was that woman.
Not in ancient Israel. Not wearing a headscarf and sandals.
But in Cleveland, Ohio. Black, brilliant, broken.

Holding a death certificate in one hand and an empty soul in the other.

On May 27, 2018, after 21 years of marriage, my husband died. His lengthy illness depleted most of our money and I was without backup. No insurance and without my best friend.

And let me tell you: grief will come for your seeds.
Grief will try to enslave the part of you that still carries hope, future, and vision.


“Elisha replied to her, ‘How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?’
‘Your servant has nothing there at all,’ she said, ‘except a small jar of olive oil.’”

2 Kings 4:2

I, too, thought I had nothing left.

But the Lord asked me the same question Elisha asked her:
What do you have in your house?

At first, I answered the way she did. “Nothing… except…”
Except my mind.
Except the math I had carried since I was a girl.
Except the old Bible stories I remembered from Sunday school.
Except this jar of oil inside me – slick and unformed, pressurized by pain, fearing the future, and potent with purpose.


“Elisha said, ‘Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few.’
Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons.
Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.’”

2 Kings 4:3–4

So I did what the widow did: I turned inward and shut the door.

I stopped performing for the world and started listening.
I borrowed vessels from books, prophets, teachers.
I poured into unfamiliar containers: Jungian psychology. Sacred geometry. Fractal mathematics. Christ-centered mysticism.

I created what I now call the 27 Way–Weigh Stations – a map made from the long road of spiritual survival and Divine recalibration.

Each one marked by a book, a practice, a breaking point, a revelation.
Each one a jar.


“She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons.
They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring.”

2 Kings 4:5

That was the next seven years of my life.

Seven years of healing.
Seven years of pouring into what I couldn’t yet explain.
Seven years of letting grief become pattern.
Of letting math become metaphor.
Of letting scripture become structure again, not just to read, but to live.

But information kept coming, the download was not complete.


“When all the jars were full, she said to her son,
‘ Bring me another one.’
But he replied, ‘There is not a jar left.’
Then the oil stopped flowing.”

2 Kings 4:6

And here’s where I pause.

Because I’ve wondered:
If my oil hasn’t stopped, and I feel that it hasn’t
then there must still be at least one jar left.

Could it be you? Could you be the neighbor with an empty jar to fill?


This isn’t FOMO marketing. This is the math of completion. Seven is the number of divine fullness.
And I have moved through my seven quite literally.

So as I near verse 7 of the 4th Chapter of 2 Kings, I want to be obedient. I want to honor the flow.
Half measures are blasphemous.

Right now, the teachings I’ve created around the Living Oil are all freely given.
While the oil is flowing, the vessel are still being filled. Just bring your jar.

At this point, I’ve refrained from building a teachable construct around the Living Oil beyond what I’ve done, not because it doesn’t deserve it, but I’ve written over 21 courses already, on math, psychology, scripture and metaphysics.

All designed as a prerequisite to equip the average reader with the foundation to explore sacred intelligence with confidence.

But this – The Living Oil? This one is for The Remnant.

For the spiritual leaders, the ministers, the mystic-minded math nerds and shepherds,
who already know it’s time to move past secularized “spirituality” and back into sacred pattern.

So we skip the permission stage.
We move directly into Spiritual Repatterning and the Living Oil.


“She went and told the man of God, and he said,
‘Go, sell the oil and pay your debts.
You and your sons can live on what is left.’”

2 Kings 4:7

And yes, eventually, I did sell the oil.
Right now, that oil takes the form of candles – symbolic of everything I’ve poured these last seven years.

Because after the pouring… after the filling… after the seventh station…

You sell the oil.
You pay your debts.
And then, beloved

You live.

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