anticipation

So, I was feeling like a total dork: it's Friday night and I bought a digital camera, graded papers at a coffee shop, ate dinner with my mother and some of her friends (who I dearly love), and am reading the book for my spiritual theology reading club. Yea, I know what you're thinking: this sounds just like that "Sex and the City" episode where Samantha... (hahaha.) Anyway, I earned all my sensations of dorkiness. But, I didn't mind the loserness when I mined these gems. I vaguely remember the quotations from other times I've read the book, but, golly gee, Bonhoeffer's good stuff. Here are the quotations from Bonhoeffer's Life Together that quelled my shame about my utter dorkfestation:

"What is important is not that God is a spectator and participant in our life today, but that we attentive listeners and participants in God's action and sacred story, the story of Christ on earth. God is with us today only as long as we are there. A complete reversal occurs here. It is not that God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, in God's son Jesus Christ, than to discover what God intends for us today. The fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than the fact that I will die.... What we call our life, our troubles and our guilt is by no means the whole of reality; our life, our need, our guilt, and our deliverance are there in the Scriptures" (47).

"... prayer is not a matter of a unique pouring out of the human heart in need or joy, but an unbroken, indeed continuous, process of learning, appropriating and impressing God's will in Jesus Christ in our mind." (44)

Am I right? Aren't these good stuff? I'm excited to get to chat this book up with other people!