Emphasis Preaching Journal
Dawn on the Horizon
Commentary
In Morris West’s novel The Clowns of God, there’s a powerful scene where a father and his daughter are having an argument. She tells him that she’s going to go to Paris to live with her boyfriend. He won’t let her. Why would she want to do something like that?
“Because I’m afraid,” she says.
“Afraid? Whatever are you afraid of?”
“Because I’m afraid,” she says.
“Afraid? Whatever are you afraid of?”
