Greetings. Hope your week has gone well. As I write this I cannot believe that it is already the 23rd of October. Advent will soon be upon us and then Christmas, New Years and another new page to continue to write our story.
The question I ask myself is who do I turn to when I have a real problem? We all have that little circle of friends. It may be three or four in that circle but we know that we are able to call upon them whenever we find ourselves in distress.
I read where someone said if we have two or three close friends, we are truly blessed. But what makes a good friend? Who can we turn to in need?
The spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen tells us, “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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 no knowing, not curing, not healing and face with the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
I guess what I read a long time ago is true, if we, in our life, can say we two or three good friends as described above , we are truly blessed.
Peace and All Good,Fr. Vinnie, osf
and the Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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