Friendship

As I have been slowly and surely tidying my office and bringing things home before the move to the new building I found this little snowglobe given to me by a friend who I supported when she had breast cancer a few years ago. Over this last few months I have had marvellous support and friendship from many people. As Henri J.M. Nouwen says in the The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey

"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 not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." Thank you.