“Perhaps our most common experience of priesthood—and often our most powerful one—is found in friendship. In friendship, desire and opportunity combine to allow us the truest knowledge of another person we are ever likely to get. In old friends we can see the flaws as well as the good points… accept that they, like us, stand in God’s presence at the border with the Holy.”
-L. William Countryman, Living on the Border of the Holy
It the holding of hands with our dear friends that reminds of where we are standing; in God’s presence…..