(from Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison (Widerstand und Ergebung)
People go to God in their need,
plead for help, ask for happiness and bread,
for deliverance from sickness, guilt, and death.
So do we all, all of us, Christian and heathen.People go to God in his need,
find him poor, abused, homeless, without bread,
see him entangled in sin, weakness, and death.
Christians stand by God in his suffering.God goes to all people in their need,
satisfies them body and soul with his bread,
dies for Christian and heathen the death of the cross,
and forgives them both.
