Henri had a major shift in his life after he met Jean Vanier. He spent the last 10 years of his life living at Day Break, a L'Arche community in Canada. Don't forget to Journal on this passage when you are through mulling it over a number of time.
"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."
Henri Nouwen http://www.henrinouwen.org/home/mediapanel/mediapanel.html
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