Day 069p: To SEE the Ones who Care … (June 22, 2019)
I thereafter flowed quite easily up into and through the town of Castelnau sur l’Auvignon and then onward to the warm and more than charming pathside Chapel de St. Germaine – where I stopped to rest for a bit, to light a candle of gratitude for all who came before and all who would arrive afterwards, and then to discover that Cindy had left me my pilgrimage’s very first note of personal encouragement in the chapel’s pilgrim’s guest book … 🙂
“When we ask ourselves which people in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice or solutions or agreement or cures, have simply chosen to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The one who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, or who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, or who can tolerate not knowing and not curing and not healing while facing with us the reality of our powerlessness, or who can urge us onward even while disagreeing with our chosen goal or vector, that is one who truly cares – that is an actual Friend.” ~ inspired by Henri Nouwen
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