Today I finished Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison. I will move on like I am leaving an old friend. It has taken me a long time to get through it, not because it was boring but because I only seem to find time to read on weekends. In addition to that it is ideally designed for devotional reading because it has many relatively short writings.
This is a book I would fully recommend. He is writing as he is incarcerated in a Nazi prison. It gives him a different perspective than those of us who complain about the little pricks of life. He knew what bondage was about. In spite of that he comes across as amazingly free and joyful.
I will probably refer back to this book from time to time. I have taken notes as I read. I expect to continue thinking about his ideas. It is a book I would like to read again but at the rate I am going it may not happen in this life.
Get a copy. Enjoy. Be inspired by one of the Giants.
homo unius libri
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