How do you tell the importance of a religious man? By telling of his miracles. The Shunammite woman had great confidence in Elisha, because she went to see him when it was neither the new moon nor the sabbath, the times when it was considered most propitious to visit a holy man. And her confidence was not in vain -- her dead son was resuscitated. Confidence in the effectiveness of a cure is critical to the success, both short- and long-term, of cancer treatment. There was a man who was diagnosed with advanced throat cancer, with a poor prognosis for survival.
