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Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
He is a German pastor and writer who was caught trying to assassinate Hitler during the Nazi era and executed.
Bonhoeffer was not afraid to deliver a sermon critical of the government shortly after the Nazi Party took power.
In his mid-20s, the extraordinary young man, who earned a doctorate in theology and qualified as a professor, was executed on April 9, 1945 under Hitler's orders and ended his life.
The charge was a conspiracy to assassinate the president.
Germany and Europe in the 1940s were grim times when the whole continent was tainted with Nazism.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a well-known theologian who was born in a wealthy and well-educated family and spent his youth without scarcity.
If you look at Bonhoeffer's life, you can't help but be impressed by his waking intellect and true faith.
He had plenty of options until he disappeared from prison at the age of 40.
Just as Christians in Chosun compromised on shrine visits in Japanese colonial era, Christian pastors in Germany also had those who collaborated with the Nazis.
He supported the president by recklessly attaching and attaching doctrines, and shamelessly deflected that this was not contrary to God's will.
The Confession Church is a denomination founded against it.
Bonhoeffer began his residency activities with comrades of the Confession Church.
I know dearly that human beings are susceptible to change.
In the face of threats and fears, it is common to shrink, give up your dreams, and abandon your conscience.
My heart gets hot when I hear the story of Chosun independence activist and Bonhoeffer's resistance at an ordinary and fragile age.
If it were me, I would have done it again.
in the 1940s, when the pitch-darkness prevailed
The images of those who are willing to devote their youth to fighting in an unknown war situation.
This keeps us from losing faith in human goodness.
These days, people often hear the praise of "people of good power."
"people of good power" is a "last letter" from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his fiance, Maria, shortly before he was hanged, and a melody by German Christian musician Siegfried Pietz in part of "Christmas Poetry."
Not because he is a genius theologian, but the life, faith, and hope and love that he has not lost despite difficulties are very surprising.
The feeling of reading his writing really has a weight that's hard to put into words.
When introducing the song all over the Internet, it seems that there is something lacking in just talking about resistance to the Nazis that Bonhoeffer did, so I introduce some of the letters.
My love Maria
1944. 12. 19. Prinz-Albrecht Straße
I am very happy to write you a letter on Christmas and to express my gratitude to both my parents, brothers and sisters and friends through this letter.
There will be very quiet days in this new prison.
But whenever I could hear nothing from the outside, I would feel how deeply connected I was with the people I loved.
It's as if our souls are creating a nervous system in solitude that we don't know in our daily lives.
So I never felt alone or abandoned for a moment.
You, your parents, your friends, and all the students on the front line are always with me.
Everyone's prayers and love, the Bible words you sent me, and the conversation, music, and books you shared in the past are living and breathing more vividly than ever next to me.
There's an invisible, wider world that you can't see with your eyes, but you live with confidence with the eyes of faith.
Like the song about angels in the old children's song, "Two cover me up, two wake me up," the invisible hand of the Lord's good power protects us in the morning and evening.
Today we adults need the protection of good power beyond the children of the past.
Don't think I'll be unhappy.
What is happiness and unhappiness?
I think that happiness and unhappiness of a person are not dependent on the environment, but are made in their lives.
The fact that you, family, and friends are all around me makes me happy and happy every day.
(Middle omitted)
Dear Maria, it's already been two years since we've been waiting for each other.
Don't lose your courage!
I'm glad you're with your parents.
Give my love to your mother-in-law and all her family.
I've moved on to the idea that came to mind last night.
This poem is my Christmas greetings to you, your parents, and your siblings.
people of good power
Surrounded by a good force of faith and quietness,
well-protected and consoled
So I want to live these days with you.
And I welcome the New Year with you.
Do you want our old hearts to suffer?
Bad days will put a heavy burden on us.
Bless our righteous souls, O Lord.
The salvation he created for us.
And you'll give us a heavy glass and a bitter glass.
I swear by those who are filled to the highest boundary of anguish.
So we don't tremble, we take him with gratitude.
From your good, loving hands.