THIELICKE ON THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH
Helmut Thielicke writes in Our Heavenly Father about the bombing raids of World War II on the German homeland. His church in Stuttgart had been destroyed, the city reduced to ashes: The greatest mysteries of God are always enacted in the depths; and therefore it is the cry from the depths that always has the greatest promise. I have known moments — like everybody else — in which discouragement crept into my heart and I felt utterly stricken. My work in Stuttgart seemed to have gone to pieces; and my listeners were scattered to the four winds; the churches lay in rubble and ashes. On one occasion when I was absorbed in these gloomy thoughts I was looking down into the concrete pit of a cellar which had been shattered by a bomb and in which more than fifty young persons had been killed. A woman came up to me and asked whether I was so and…
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