Each creature God made
Must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
~ by Mechtild of Magdeburg
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 or bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.