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London, New Year's Day, January 1, 1934.
This short meditation was published in the January 7, 1934, issue of the Newsletter for German-Speaking Congregations in Great Britain. Later, when writing his book Discipleship (first published in English as The Cost of Discipleship) during the Finkenwalde years, Bonhoeffer referred back to it and developed an interpretation of the text from Luke on which this meditation is based (DBWE 4: 59-61, 115). So it is possible that it not only served to inspire his colleagues who were pastors of other German congregations in Britain, but also was discussed in the course of his teaching in the Finkenwalde seminary.