told me that he felt he had a word for me from John 12:24: “I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (NIV). Here Jesus was speaking prophetically about His own imminent death, which would bear great fruit, but it seemed God was saying that my time at college would be my own place of death and burial. I was not sure what to make of it—but I was soon to learn what Bonhoeffer meant when he said,