If you are in business and are asked the perennial question, "How's business?" can you answer, "It is well" and know the reasons why? If so, you are discerning somewhat that harmony characterizes all that is basically true of creation, including man and his activity, which is entirely spiritual.
The Shunammite's example, as recorded in the Bible, should give pause to magnifying untoward material conditions unnecessarily. The prophet Elisha, in appreciation of the warm hospitality bestowed on him by a great woman of Shunem, desired to do something for her. Gehazi, Elisha's servant, disclosed that the Shunammite's husband was very old and they had no children. Elisha prophesied she would have a son, and it was so.
When he was a lad, he was brought in ill one day from the field, and while sitting on his mother's knees, died. The Shunammite hastened to Elisha for aid, confidently declaring, even in the face of death, "It shall be well." II Kings 4:23;
