Emphasis Preaching Journal

Seated among the learned rabbis in the temple, the young Jesus displays a remarkable awareness of who he is. In The Prayer of the Frog, Anthony de Mello tells a story of a grown woman who is in a coma, near death, and lacks such self-awareness. Suddenly this woman has a feeling that she is being taken up to heaven, and before she knows it, she is standing before the Judgment Seat.

"Who are you?" a Voice says to her.

"I'm the wife of the mayor," she replies.

"I did not ask you whose wife you are, but who you are."