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.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.