Monday, November 20, 2006

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote this while awaiting execution in a Nazi prison.

"Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves," We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."
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3 comments:

Impossibleape said...

WOW indeed.
because
"There is no mystery so great as misery." (The Happy Prince)

yet meaning and hope is gained for all of us by those who love even in the face of suffering

11:00 PM
Anonymous said...

sadly funny...i want to be able to teach people about meaning and hope...but I don't wanna suffer...hmmmm

9:45 AM
Impossibleape said...

that's part of the mystery

we often don't get to chose our suffering

like Jonah it dogs us to the end of the earth as we frantically flee from it's gaping jaw (but it will eventually swallow us, if that is meant to be)

a few brave souls don't run. They humbly embrace it and allow it to have its way in them till God transforms that experience of pain into love for others who suffer and perhaps rage at the systems of thought and governance that inflict this pain on others.


the accepters, lovers and ragers are rare and precious few and we need to celebrate and encourage them more

10:15 AM

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