Wilhelm Busch | CLV | 128 pages | €4.50
What is life like for someone who spends 40 years as a youth pastor in the cities of the Ruhr region, encountering a wide variety of people – from teenagers and miners to factory directors? Wilhelm Busch, the renowned youth pastor from Essen, who also wrote many other important books, such as "Jesus Our Destiny," offers an answer to this question. This small book contains short, easily readable stories from the eventful life of this man. The experiences recounted range from the First World War to the post-war period in Germany after the Nazi dictatorship.
Wilhelm Busch speaks about Jesus Christ with such simplicity and infectious love that one wishes one had been with him on the streets and in the homes of the rough miners to experience the life-changing power of the Gospel.
But this small volume also doesn't shy away from some of the darker moments of his life. Moments, for example, when he wanted to give up and was then strengthened anew by God.
While reading, one has the feeling of getting to know this man a little personally, his cheerfulness and his eloquence, without having to fear that one is merely reading a few entertaining stories. These are the experiences of a man who had many encounters with God, who lived his life without the routines of everyday life, but with God.
Jonathan Fott
Ramstein municipality