Prologue
I see this time asa reckoning. I think of what Jesus tells Peter
in Luke 22:31, thatthe devil wants him tobe sifted like wheat.
‘To enter into crisis is tobe sifted. Your categories and ways of
‘thinking get shaken up; your priorities and lifestyles are chal-
lenged. You cross a threshold, either by your own choice or
by necessity, because there are criss, like the one were going
‘through, that you can avoid.
‘The question is whether you're going to come through this