Bonhoeffer

"I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I tried to read his "Cost of Discipleship." I wasn't grown up enough to wrap myself around this text. Last night we watched the 2003 documentary about him. It's time to give him another try, especially now that I am working myself around the ability of my country to allow genocide to happen--Rwanda and Darfur.