SEPTEMBER 14
"Sorrow brings also a temptation to exactingness. It may be that friends are very helpful to us. Let us take care that no selfishness mingles with our love for their companionship, with our claims for their sympathy.
"What, for the time, at any rate, is all the world to us, can only be a small part of another's life.
"And one must struggle, as time goes on, to take what comes in one's way of sympathy, of kindness, of companionship, but one must also try never to exact sympathy, to allow ourselves to feel neglected, or slighted, or forgotten.
"This is a hard lesson—sometimes.
"The whole of one's nature becomes sensitive, easily wounded, easily depressed."
Canon Scott Holland.
SEPTEMBER 15