“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, not curing, not healing and face with us the
reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” (Henri Nouwen)
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