题目内容
Have you ever noticed how hard it can be to find the right words? I have, frequently! And there are times 1. I am certain the right words do not even exist.
More than once I have been called to a hospital emergency room or to be with a family around the bed of a 2. (die) relative. And more than once I’ve been at a 3. (lose) for words.
4. wise doctor at a university teaching hospital once made a comment about comforting those who suffer. Someone asked the doctor 5. advice he offered his students, the future doctors, when caring for mothers who gave birth 6. lifeless babies. The doctor paused for a moment. Then he said, “I tell them they need two eyes. With one eye they have to check the drip. And with the 7. they have to weep. That’s what I tell them.”
That may be some of 8. (wise) advice I’ve heard. We may not always need to figure out what to say; we really only need two eyes. In Emily Dickinson’s words, “Saying nothing sometimes says the most.” It says I want to walk alongside them, difficult 9. it may be. My 10. (present) is something they can draw real strength and hope from.
