I have found this to be absolutely true. Any one can love you when all is well in your life. It’s easy at those times because the expectations are small and our needs are almost non-existent. It is when the storm clouds start rolling in that the going gets tough.  It can be an illness we suffer from, or memories out of the past which come to haunt us. It can be a divorce, the loss of a job, or the loss of a significant other from our lives. But the ones who care, stay, and do the difficult things. They do what needs to be done. They do it because they know what it is like to be vulnerable, helpless, or in pain. We are blessed when they enter our lives because they truly show us  that Christ is alive and His love is still present among us, and reminds us that heaven is, indeed, real.

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