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Go! All right man. We're session five of wilderness stuff thinking about

wilderness thinking about when life gets hard how do 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 challenge, to purify, and to reveal himself to us.

And 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 myer's from history or kind of little images to ponder

is the hour and Dietrich Bonhoe for his 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 Monher, Eric McTaxus's book on Bonhoeffer 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 saying in prison.

Just a little bit of historic context quick. He was a pastor and a theologian 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 II 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 because it was pretty clear that there was a good chance he was

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