We are awed by war stories of heroes who took a bullet for a friend. One recent African-American candidate for ministry shared with his professor that he had grown up without a mother, because as an infant she had run back into their burning house to save him. He had survived but not her. These stories move us, because they are such powerful witnesses to love! Why do we not think and feel the same toward Jesus' great sacrifice for us? Medieval mystic Bernard of Clairvaux describes how profoundly moving the word of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is: "He [Christ] is living and full of energy.
