Sunday, February 12, 2012

That Is A Friend Who Cares (An Excerpt by Henri Nouwen)

"When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find 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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness; that is a friend who cares."

Excerpt from Out of Solitude
by Henri Nouwen

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