By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Translated through John W. Doberstein
from the German
Gemeinsames Leben
published via Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich
Fifth version 1949
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The passions of the flesh die in the world of things. But this can happen only where the Christian breaks through the ‘it’ to the ‘Thou’, which is God, who bids him work and makes that work a means of liberation from himself. The work does not cease to be work; on the contrary, the hardness and rigour of labour is really sought only by the one who knows what it does for him. The continuing struggle with the ‘it’ remains. But at the same time the break-through is made; the unity of prayer and work, the unity of the day is discovered; for to find, behind the ‘it’ of the day’s work, the ‘Thou’, which is God, is what Paul calk ‘praying without ceasing’ (I Thess.
Had he accepted the revelation, he may perhaps have come out of the temple not dumb but silent’ (Ernest Hello). The speech, the Word which establishes and binds together the fellowship, is accompanied by silence. There is a time to keep silence and a time to speak’ (Eccl. 7). As there are definite hours in the Christian’s day for the Word, particularly the time of common worship and prayer, so the day also needs definite times of silence, silence under the Word and silence that comes out of the Word.
Moreover, the person who has really listened and served and borne with others is the very one who is likely to say nothing. A profound distrust of everything that is merely verbal often causes a personal word to a brother to be suppressed. What can weak human words accomplish for others? Why add to the empty talk? Are we, like the professionally pious, to ‘talk away’ the other person’s real need? Is there anything more perilous than speaking God’s Word to excess? But, on the other hand, who wants to be accountable for having been silent when he should have spoken?