But if God could zap an unusual ability into Becky Jenkins, why couldn’t He zap the life out of the war? Or keep it from starting? How many people out there were praying right now for their suffering to stop, and it wasn’t stopping? Mysterious ways—that bigger-than-life, worthless, blanket explanation people ascribed to God. The ongoing promise that all would be revealed on the other side. Forgive her (if she needed to be forgiven), but she was beginning to think a grand explanation wasn’t coming.