Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 

John 11:1–6 

Module One: Sickness Unto Death

In preparation for this week's material, please read the Foreword, the Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 of Into a Reluctant Sunrise.

After you have completed the above, choose one or more of the the following:

• Book: Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard

• Passage: “Being and Nonbeing” by Paul Tillich

• “The Raising of Lazarus” by Van Gogh

• Poem:

  “Together”

  I am here.
  And somewhere inside
  A voice echoed
  Or answered
  So am I.
  And arm and arm we went,
  
  Together.

  —Andrea L. Lingle, Into a Reluctant Sunrise, p. 20

• Video: “MangoMoments”