Waiting for dad in ICU
July 29, 2009 by Cara Donahue
“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.” -Henri Nouwen
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope” -Henri Nouwen
“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 healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” -Henri Nouwen
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” -Tori Amos
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We have your family in our prayers, Cara–Thanks for the email updates. It sounds like he will recover, just slowly. Maybe its better to recover slowly-too quick and its suspect.
We also recently picked up a special Easter-y box of goodies up from the PC office—THANK YOU. You are so creative & thoughtful. I am pacing myself through the quotes, because they are so great. THANK YOU, Thank You.
Bless.
Thanks for the prayers, we appreciate every one.
I’m glad you got the box. I must say, you make it way too fun & addictive to send goodie boxes to.