Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.  –Normal Maclean

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question:  we are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed?  For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us.  Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted.  And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us.  But we can still love them:  we can love completely without complete understanding. –The Reverend Maclean in “A River Runs Through It”

There is a person in my life who I have tried to love for many years.  She is a beautiful, creative, wonderful person who sees things…