- 126: THOUGH DEATH CAME SOON
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Dietrich had facilitated contacts
among his many friends across Europe
to assassinate Adolph Hitler, but, when that plot
failed, he meditated in a letter
to Maria on faith as well as failure.
Endeavoring to plot his faith in God
in paragraphs to her, that letter was sadder
than before. Still, the pastor would
not turn from our world. Because of his time here,
faith in God was real. The pastor did
not stop plotting the landscape of his dear
faith. Although Dietrich was too soon killed,
he still found doors to faith within our world
and plotted them. To death, the pastor continued.
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128: FOREVER IN FAITH
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To be able to live and work in common faith
with people in his homeland after the war,
the pastor had returned to Berlin just days
before deaths began. In his cell in prayer,
not long before he died but years before
a statue of his head was placed, in faith,
high above a street upon an upper
wall of Westminster Abbey, where a wealth
of the London faithful will look to see him rest,
forever, among a number of saints, there,
in his cell, in prayer, Dietrich approached the end
of his everyday life with other prisoners.
He knew the changing light of many dawns
from that cell. He knew our God in prayers.
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