Support Network Quotes

“Job’s wife went with her husband from a comfortable and well-supplied lifestyle to being homeless, bankrupt, and childless. She became a caregiver, as she had been to her entire family while they were alive and for her ill husband, who according to Scripture, was in so much physical pain that he wished for death (Job 2:12-13, Job 3). Perhaps the words that his wife uttered, was merely her way of ending the pain for her husband whom she had to witness suffering day after day. It only mentions Job’s three friends that came to comfort him. Job’s wife probably did not have a support network of other women to help and assist her. If she did, while they were affluent, these fair weather friends would probably not have wanted to get involved now. The saying: ‘Sympathy says “sorry” and runs away; empathy says “I understand” and stays’, rings so true. She probably subdued her own sorrow and pain and first took care of her husband’s pain. Yet, she, together with her husband, trusted in the goodness of God. And God blessed them.”
― Paddick Van Zyl

“Marriage is powerful because even if we have no one else, we still have a built-in support ‘network’ (because spouses fulfil so many different roles): someone who looks out for our health, happiness and survival!”
― Sam Owen, Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More

“With winged companions
by my side,
I will stretch.
I will soar.
I will fly.”
― Jenny Noble Anderson, But Still She Flies: Poems and Paintings