Your fate is not the result of your faith alone, for no one stands alone. Relationships don’t stand alone either. All notions of self-sufficiency need abandoning. Without the involvement of others in your future, you have no future.25 Outside of relationships, there is no “you” or “I.” In fact, it is not “I think, therefore I am” (ala Descartes). It is “I’m with, therefore I am.” Or more precisely, “We are, therefore I am.” . . . Faithful friends are life-saving medicine. —Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)