It is one of the best stories - some say the best! - The evangelical pastor and poet Johann Peter Hebel : "Unexpected Reunion" . A young Mountain man kisses his pretty young bride and says: "Soon will bless our love Then we are husband and wife, and build our own little nest.." But the young groom returns in the evening did not return from the mine.
find miners after 50 years the body of a young man, uncorrupted and unchanged, as if he had died an hour ago. No one but a gray, shrunken white woman with him to do something: "It is my fiance," she says finally, "to whom I had mourned for fifty years and I can see God again before my end."
the funeral the next day she puts on her Sunday best, as if her wedding day would be. Because when he was at the cemetery to the grave loaded, it says: "Sleep well now, and leave you no time to be long. I have to do very little and come quickly, and soon there will be day again.
2010, the Lutheran Church's 250th Birthday Johann Peter Hebel. But today is his death: 184 years before he died in Schwetzingen. I share his hope that is in the last sentence of the old woman to the expression: "What the world has ever played, it will not keep for the second time too."
[This article is also available as radio devotions in the series "Feels Like Heaven" took place at Rockland Radio . hear! (Mp3 file) ]
find miners after 50 years the body of a young man, uncorrupted and unchanged, as if he had died an hour ago. No one but a gray, shrunken white woman with him to do something: "It is my fiance," she says finally, "to whom I had mourned for fifty years and I can see God again before my end."
the funeral the next day she puts on her Sunday best, as if her wedding day would be. Because when he was at the cemetery to the grave loaded, it says: "Sleep well now, and leave you no time to be long. I have to do very little and come quickly, and soon there will be day again.
2010, the Lutheran Church's 250th Birthday Johann Peter Hebel. But today is his death: 184 years before he died in Schwetzingen. I share his hope that is in the last sentence of the old woman to the expression: "What the world has ever played, it will not keep for the second time too."
[This article is also available as radio devotions in the series "Feels Like Heaven" took place at Rockland Radio . hear! (Mp3 file) ]
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