“The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother... It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated.”
Bonhoeffer argues that the hard, burdensome moments of human relationship are not obstacles to love — they are the place where love becomes real. A child who is a burden is not less of a child; the difficulty is the very substance of real relationship.
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