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.Shortly after the funeral held for the first wife of President Harold B, Lee, I was in a group which included his daughter Helen. Someone expressed sympathy to her for the passing of her mother and said: “She took such good care of your father, I’m sure he must be lonely and must miss all of the things she did for him.”
Helen responded with an insight of remarkable wisdom.”You don’t understand, she said. “It is not so much that he misses all of the things that mother did for him. He misses her most because he needs someone to do for.”
We all need someone to do for. When that is unfulfilled as a need, we become lonely. In the Lord’s own way, Relief Society provides for that need. ~ ‘Memorable Stories and Parables by Boyd K. Packer’, Bookcraft 1997, p. 87
