MD,
In the short time you have inhabited this forum and I have been reading your posts, this is—so far—your most eloquent, insightful and moving post. It is the work of your reason, your profound insights, your appropriate and meaningful analogies, your broad grasp of human interaction and what that interaction does and cannot do.
You have understood the pain that I have felt and have expressed it for me.
You, and the other faithful Catholics who have helped to support me and sustain me through the troubled waters of this thread —and all the others like it—have been my “friends for the journey” and I know not how I can repay all of you in gratitude except with my poor prayers.
All is grace.
ROE
Praise God.