NO NEED FOR SORROW
One of the stories that is told about Deitrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and pastor who was executed in 1945 by the Nazis for his participation in a plot to assassinate Hitler, comes from his final letter to his fiance, written just before Christmas in 1944. In the midst of the tragedy of life and facing certain death he wrote the following word to his much loved Maia Von Wedemeyer: “You must not think that I am unhappy. What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends only on that which happens inside a person.” From Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, ed. Eberhard Bethge, New York, Macmillan, 1972, pg. 419
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