Painted on one side of our Sunday school wall were the words, God is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four … - Norman Maclean

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

Help,” he said, “is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

In the Gates of the Mountains there have been many blowups. Now there are many rattlesnakes and nothing more fragile than mountain goats, themselves tougher than the mountains they disdain, although at a distance they are white wings of butterflies floating up and down and sideways across the faces of fragments of arches and cliffs, touching but never becoming attached to them.