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All right, man, we're session five of wilderness stuff, thinking about wilderness,

thinking about when life gets hard how

do we navigate what is god doing where is god these are all really important themes and stuff

the early church really thought a lot about the kind of motif or the theme of wilderness in the

life of a believer so far we've acknowledged that the spirit of the Lord leads the

believer to the wilderness, to sift, to the challenge, to purify, and to reveal himself to us.

So wilderness is a part of God's plan, and we need to learn to navigate it. When I think about

the wilderness, one of my favorite stories from history or kind of little images to

ponder is the hour in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life where he's put into prison. He's in prison

for two years during World War II. If you don't know much about Dieter Bonhofer,

Eric McTaxe's book on Bonhofer is like a bestseller. It really is a page turner. If you

get your hands on that, you can't put it down. But you can get like his letters and papers from prison,

which are really interesting to read because it's kind of everything that he processed while he

was sitting in prison. Just a little bit of historical context quick. He was a pastor and a the

ologian during World War II, resisted kind of the Nazi regime participated in a

plot to overthrow Hitler that comes out he's arrested and eventually he's put to death after two years

of imprisonment like two weeks before the world world war two ends and so his life's really interesting

but again that period of imprisonment he was engaged in that period and really excited about getting married, which never came to pass, and really struggled with fear, worrying about his family and what was life going to come to you?

Because it was pretty clear that there was a good chance he was going to be put to death for his participation in resisting Hitler.

Well, anyway, in his letters and papers from prison, you can find this poem that he wrote

called Who Am I?

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