“Tip: ‘Thinking of you’ is better [than ‘How are you?’]. As is ‘Do not reply. Just to say that I know it must be impossible. I’m sending you my love.’ Or: ‘Call any time if you want to, but not if you can’t. Day or night. I mean it.’”
#JamesRuncie on responding to another person’s pain or grief, in his new book “Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage”, quoted in the #ChurchTimes 2/12/22.