Novelist Harry Brown shared an...
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Novelist Harry Brown shared an Oscar as a screenwriter. His first novel, A Walk in the Sun, came out of his serving as an enlisted man in WWII. In it, one soldier says to another, “There are qualities and grades of fear.” One can hear the voice of experience in those words. Across the Mediterranean from Italy, where A Walk in the Sun was set, Jesus in his time slept in a boat beset by storm. The quality and grade of the disciples’ fear was top of the scale. They knew the lake. They recognized the power of storms. They understood the limitations of their abilities. Whether in warfare or in natural disasters Jesus knows our particular kind of fear. No matter how one might define or describe the horror of our own fears, one thing is constant across the world and over time: Jesus is in this boat with us.
