The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; I have a goodly heritage.
—Psalm 16:5-6
Literally millions of martyrs were created by the Nazis during the Second World War. But one of the best-known in Christian circles was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant pastor. After his arrest and during his confinement in a Gestapo prison in Berlin, he wrote a poem which he sent to his family in late December 1944. It has lived on as a hymn of faith during confinement. It does not deny fear, but nonetheless looks