Friday, November 7, 2003

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person 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 The hardest part of my grieving process is that the person that matches this description is the one that I've lost. 9:38:06 AM

It sounds like I need to divide something. Maybe it's the joy, or, maybe it's the grief. "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) or ... "Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief." Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) From the Quotations Page 9:18:35 AM

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