"In life with Jesus Christ, death as a
general fate approaching us from without is confronted by death from within,
one's own death, the free death of daily dying with Jesus Christ. Those who live with Christ die daily to their
own will. Christ in us gives us over to
death so that he can live within us.
Thus our inner dying grows to meet that death from without. Christians receive their own death in this
way, and in this way our physical death very truly becomes not the end but
rather the fulfillment of our life with Jesus Christ. Here we enter into community with the One who
at his own death was able to say, 'It is finished.'"
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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