About the Book

Everyone’s looking for true love, but few people seem willing to work at making it last. With separation and divorce so commonplace that most people see them as inevitable, it seems the very idea of marital commitment is fast becoming a foreign one. What’s gone wrong?

On Good Friday 1907, in the German university town of Halle, a young couple sealed their secret engagement with a kiss – and a vow to follow God wherever he led them. They were passionately in love, yet they rejected romance as the basis of their relationship, building instead on the promise of Jesus’ words, “Seek first the kingdom of God.” Circumstance (and scandalised parents) kept them separated for most of the next three years. But that separation bore its own fruit: an intense exchange of letters.

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Praise

A rare find. It is a privilege to be invited into such an intimate conversation.

Father Philip K. Eichner, S.M. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

Here are letters of both immense intensity and the deepest intimacy, almost too sacred for publication. They witness to a deeply based love nurtured in the context of an absolute commitment to Christ.

Prof. John Briggs, Oxford University

These inspiring letters interweave a profound love for Jesus Christ with a deep love between two young people, as well as an utterly transparent search to do God’s will.

Prof. Lawrence S. Cunningham, The University of Notre Dame

More than love letters. They show how a man and a woman can nurture each other toward spiritual maturity.

Tony Campolo, Eastern University

Tablet of Contents

  • Background
  • First Love
  • Baptism
  • Joy in the Lord
  • Testing
  • Changing Course
  • Separation
  • By Degrees
  • The Light of God
  • Langeoog
  • Misunderstandings
  • The Home Stretch
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