General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? visit with friends, 1 by

wrote:
TO:
Shirley and Tubby
Anne and Mike
Bev and Scotty


I have no words to express how I feel right now. So maybe this will say it for me:

When we honestly ask ourselves
which people in our lives mean the most to us,
we often find that it is those who,
instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain
and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
The friends who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion,
who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,
who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing
and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,
that is a friend who cares.

Written by: Henri Nouwen


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