Bonhoeffer on Christmas

First off, I love a good romance-- not cheesy romantic comedy love but real deep down put someone else's needs before yourself, concerned with their feelings, honest with eachother type of romance...and thats why I love this quote about Christmas that Bonhoeffer wrote to his wife from prison...because it expresses his concern for her and discusses the pain of being separated from her...but lovelingly points her to the gospel. God is there..in the manger...even in the bad circumstances.

"Be brave, my dearest Maria, even if this letter is your only token of my love this Christmas-tide. We shall both experience a few dark hours -- why should we disguise that from each other? We shall ponder the incomprehensibility of our lot and be assailed by the question of why, over and above the darkness already enshrouding humanity. We are being subjected to the bitter anguish of a separation whose purpose we fail to understand. And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger."

Favorite line: And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger.