The world breaks everyone, wrote...
"The world breaks everyone," wrote Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell To Arms,
"and afterward many are strong at the broken places." The letter to the Hebrews tells of
someone whom the world broke. His name is Jesus Christ.
We are not alone in this universe, after all. Someone else, the very Son of God, has
broken down the doors of this human life of ours, and taken it by storm. This one has
interceded himself between us and the dread ogre we most fear -- death itself -- and he
has triumphed. As John Calvin teaches, "... in permitting himself to be overcome of
