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One of the best biographies I’ve ever read…. Ok listened to.

One can joyfully and authentically proclaim the Word of God’s love and mercy with one’s mouth only where one’s hands are not considered too good for deeds of love and mercy in everyday helpfulness.

Those who look at other Christians should know that they will be eternally united with them in Jesus Christ.

“Nobody is too good for the lowest service,” he wrote. “Those who worry about the loss of time entailed by such small external acts of helpfulness are usually taking their own work too seriously” (p. 78). Even the smallest task could remind the brothers that God’s ways were not always their ways.

First came the service of listening to one another, especially when people crave nothing more than listening to their problems. If one can’t listen to another in need, Bonhoeffer asked, how can he listen to God?

“How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” (Ps. 133:1)

Once individuals have experienced the mercy of God in their lives, from then on they desire only to serve. The proud throne of the judge no longer lures them; instead they want to be down among the wretched and lowly, because God found them down there themselves. “Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly” (Rom. 12:16).