The success of love is in the loving,
... not in the result of loving.

*Mother Teresa

So appreciative she is, that we are here. She has shared her sense of loneliness, of being unloved, and her pain of memories of the past. I have held her hand. I have been present, often not speaking. Before leaving, I bend down and we embrace. She is sacred, her story of pain and bliss holy, and she does not need fixing. She needs to be loved. And we can hear that in her voice, as we turn to leave, the voice that speaks the gratitude of the heart that someone is here, someone cares. No, she does not need to be fixed, but seen, truly seen, heard, truly heard, and touched with Kindness. And in that, heart and heart reach across an abyss, and Love happens again. Love does that, you know?