# “A burden from God which they must carry” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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- Published: 2009-08-12T21:22:52-05:00
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“Since men live on earth, God has given them a lasting reminder that this earth 
stands under the curse of sin and is not itself the ultimate reality. Over the destiny
of woman and of man lies the dark shadow of a word of God’s wrath, a burden from
God, which they must carry. The woman must bear her children in pain, and in providing
for his family the man must reap many thorns and thistles, and labor in the sweat
of his brow.

This burden should cause both man and wife to call on God, and should remind them
of their eternal destiny in His kingdom. Earthly society is only the beginning of
the heavenly society, the earthly home an image of the heavenly home, the earthly
family a symbol of the fatherhood of God.”

–Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “A Wedding Sermon from a Prison Cell,” _[Letters & Papers From Prison](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684838273?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
New York: Touchstone, 1953/1997), 46.

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