Thanks, friend, you know who you are...
" When we honestly ask ourselves which persons 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 friend 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 now knowing, notcuring, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ------
Henri Nouwen ----
posted by Beverly at
10:30 PM
3 comment(s):
amen, sista!
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Anonymous, at
11:18 AM
oh yes!!!! that is sooo true. Advice is so alienating... being brave enough to suffer with - now that is true friendship.
So glad you have friends like that, bev!
By
gracie, at
3:25 AM
I second what Gracie said.
By
Scott, at
2:21 PM
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