Just Give me Easy
In Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "The Cost of Discipleship," he writes about sorrow as he reflects on the Beatitudes. He says that disciples do not need to go out of their way "to look for suffering . . ." Disciples, "simply bear the suffering which comes their way as they try to follow Jesus Christ, and bear it for "his" sake." Bonhoeffer says that "Sorrow cannot tire them [disciples] or wear them down, it cannot embitter them or cause them to break down under the strain; far from it, for they bear their sorrow in the strength of him who bears them up, who bore the whole suffering of the world upon the cross." For anyone who has grown tired of their physical pain, mental stress or exhaustion, it really isn't a very far walk to "breaking down under the strain." Many people, I think, are right on the edge. If we are being honest, we just want easy, don't we? Give us peace. Let us be free from all of the st