How do you answer a question like that?

One can't help being awed by a picture such as this...

I have a friend in crisis. I wish I could just reach inside her and take away her pain and sorrow. I wish I could crush her fears, hold her in my arms and tell her, "It's okay... it's not the end of the world... It's just a bump in the road. It'll get better."

All those things will happen in the future, I don't doubt... but today she is in agony, her heart is broken, her spirit faltering, her mind overwhelmed. But she will persevere, of that I do not doubt.

She is stronger than she knows, the answers are not out of reach... but I grieve for her. I'm trying to help her make sense of things...

I wish I could calm her aching heart, bring peace to her tattered soul, but I can't reach inside her and soothe what so desperately needs to be soothed... so I do the best I can... I give her all my love, all my support, a shoulder to cry on, and do my utmost to make her smile.

It's what I do best, it's what I believe... the reason I have survived a rare cancer and beaten it... I made my way through that, so I could be here for her now, for all my friends, for all my family...

So have hope my friend... you are not in this alone and you never will be.