BEING THERE

• Being there can be lending a hand, lifting a heavy load.
  
  
• Being there can be a smile on a cloudy day.
  
  
• Being there can be a crust of bread to the poor, giving shelter from the storm.
  
  
• Being there can be a thought, a blessing, a prayer.
  
  
• Being there can be showing support, and enthusiasm.
  
  
• Being there can be listening quietly while someone else has something important they'd like you to hear.
  
  
• Being there can be a friendly hug, or a warm embrace.
  
  
• Being there can be expressions, penned on a page.
  
  
• Being there can be the transferring of a certain glance.
  
  
• Being there can be offering your time.
  
  
• Being there can be sitting silently beside someone to watch the sun slide behind a silver sea.
  
  
• Being there can be wiping a tear.
  
  
• Being there can be chasing the moon at midnight.
  
  
• Being there can be a whisper, a word, a soft touch at the right moment.
  
  
• Being there can be riding the ferris wheel together without ever leaving the ground.
  
  
• Being there can be a telephone call, closing the miles.
  
  
• Being there can be a kiss on a fevered brow.
  
  
• Being there can be the gift of a flower.
  
  
• Being there can be teaching with kindness.
  
  
• Being there can be sharing the depth of a powerful silence.
  
  
• Being there can be wishing you were somewhere when you must be someplace else.
  
  
• Being there can be taking someone's place when they must be somewhere else.
  
  
• Being there can be driving through the blazing brilliance of autumn.
  
  
• Being there can be just holding hands.
  
  
• Being there can be waiting out the tough times.
  
  
• Being there can be touching God through the heart, and letting His will be done.
  

Author Unknown --- Sent in by Bobbie Gonder