To care means first of all to be present to each other. - Henri Nouwen
A student of Dr. Nouwen's at Harvard Divinity School was walking with him across the campus after class. The student shared with Dr. Nouwen the recent death of his wife who passed away at age thirty-two. Suddenly, the student found himself weeping uncontrollably.
What would the great Dr. Nouwen say? I wondered, as I listened to this story told to me by a psychologist at the Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee. What words of wisdom would this great sage & author of over thirty books offer to this grieving man in the middle of the Harvard campus?...