Texts: 1 Kings 19: 9-18; Matthew 14: 22-33
In the final scene of Martin Doblmeier's film Bonhoeffer, the Nazi guard accompanying Bonhoeffer to the gallows notices that he seems to be shaking, asks him if he is afraid to die. Stating that he was just shivering from the cold - he had been stripped of his clothing and it was a chilly April morning at the Flossenburg concentration camp - he walked calmly to what was a particularly brutal hanging - strangulation by a wire rather than a drop to break the neck. His writings and his final statement make it clear that he did not fear death at all. I'm not sure that I would have been without fear in the same situation. To be honest, I'm not sure what I fear more: dying or what might lie beyond the grave.
Fear is a normal response not just to that which we do not k...
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 "He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" MICAH 6:8 NRSV |
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