These meditations, in the form of one reading for each day of the year, capture many of the important insights scattered throughout Bonhoeffer s writings. They plan, hope, and dream only when things are well. But no difficulty should stop us from planning, hoping, praying, and dreaming. Such an approach would be a waste of our sorrows.
Difficulty is often the mother of new hopes and dreams.
The genuineness of these hopes and dreams will be marked by the fact that they are not hopes simply for our deliverance from difficulty, but for new possibilities of faith and action. Meditation Difficulty is no barrier to faith and hope.