Thought for the Day

Commemoration renders life human: forgetfulness makes it

inhuman. We know of course about the grace of forgetting.

But even when remembrance carries grief and shame, it fills the

future with perspectives. [. . .] The degree of accountability 

regarding yesterday is the measure of a stable tomorrow.

~ Eberhard Bethge

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Quoted in Laura M. Fabrycky, Chapter 8, "Befriending Bonhoeffer," in Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Fortress Press, 2020), page 237 (The quote is from Bethge's Friendship and Resistance: Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Eerdmans, 1995), page 105.)

Laura M. Fabrycky, Writer and Poet; Diplomat's Spouse (While her husband was stationed in Berlin, Fabrycky became a volunteer guide at the Bonhoeffer-Haus. Currently, she and her family live in Brussels, Belgium. Her book is a memoir.)

Eberhard Bethge (1909-2000), Writer, Biographer, German Protestant Theologian; Student and Close Friend of Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer