Awesome book, this Bonhoeffer biography. I can’t help but share some of the great thoughts. This one is abut Bonhoeffer’s strong conviction about the “incarnational aspect of the Christian faith.” I would simply add to what he said, and I am sure he would agree, not only must a marriage be a ‘yes’ to God’s earth (I think he means ‘creation’ and ‘present life here on earth’) but also a ‘yes’ to the God-created lives we’ve been given. What ‘yes’es'(??), passions, convictions, are you living out today?
“God wants to see human beings,’ he said, ‘not ghosts who shun the world.’ He said that in the ‘whole of world history there is always only one really significant hour – the present…if you want to find eternity, you must serve the times.’
His words presaged what he would write to his fiancée from his prison cell years later: ‘Our marriage must be a ‘yes’ to God’s earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.’” Eric Metaxis, Bonhoeffer, 81
