More Reflections on Bonhoeffer

• The Pain:

To be working against your own country that is as deeply rooted in you as anything.

• The Confusion:

Wishing for the defeat of your country in war in order to save it from destruction.

• The Loneliness:

Unable to talk to many people about what you are doing and thinking out of concern for them.

• The Grief:

That the faith you so strongly believe in has been co-opted or worse, become meaningless in the fight.

• The Hope:

That what you are doing may bring about a resolution to the problems you are working against.

• The Peace:

That you are doing what you understand to be the will and calling of God in your life- even if no one else sees it.