I share with you the agony of your grief,
The anguish of your heart finds echo in my own.
I know I cannot enter all you feel,
Nor bear with you the burden of your pain;
I can but offer what my love does give:
The strength of caring,
The warmth of one who seeks to understand
The silent storm-swept barrenness of so great a loss.
This I do in quiet ways,
That on your lonely path
You may not walk alone.
Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart (Beacon Press, 1999)
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