Today's Buechner quotes are acutally not Buechner at all, but rather Henri Nouwen. Why, you ask? Why not I say! :)
Enjoy!!
“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.”
“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate.
Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with
others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken.
But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire
most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick
cure for it.”
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