00:09he traveled for a night and a day and another night with the servant following behind he
00:17passed by Samaria without entering he passed through the hills of Judah without stopping
00:23he arrived at Beersheba the last city before the nothingness and there he said to the young
00:30man stay here my lord stay you have a home to go back to I have nothing left to teach
00:41you
00:47and he walked into the desert alone a day's journey the Sun beating down relentlessly no
00:56shade but his own until his legs gave out beneath the only bush on the horizon a stunted gray juniper
01:05the size of a man and Elijah collapsed sideways onto the sand and lay there prophet of fire lying in
01:16the dust his face against the earth it is enough Lord take my life I am no better than my
01:28father's
01:28he closed his eyes and he slept as those sleep who do not wish to wake a touch on the
01:37shoulder
01:37light once Elijah opened his eyes and someone was kneeling beside him a man or so it seemed
01:47wearing a light-colored tunic and a gray cloak his feet free of dust with eyes the likes of which
01:55he
01:55had never seen in anyone get up eat no rebuke no sermon Elijah took the warm bread ate and slept
02:06again and the touch came again get up and eat the journey is too long for you he ate again
02:27and this time when he finished the man was no longer there only the imprint of knees in the sand
02:35and the cooling embers Elijah stood up he walked one day then another and another until the days lost count
02:45white sand then red dunes then gravel beneath hard stars then broken stone at the bottom of wadis
02:55and the
