Dharma lessons

Life sometimes delivers dharma lessons in strange and unexpected ways.
Recently a lady contacted me having found my business card (as clergy) in a local coffee shop and then finding my MySpace and reading all my blog posts and such. We corresponded for a while on the Internet and then actually met twice. We seemed th connect right away, the kind of relationship that seems to continue something from a past life. After that we seemed only able to communicate by IM, phone, and text messages.
Her son was sick and then she was sick, but she seemed not to be able to understand or accept that I stood ready to help in any way that I could. I offered to bring over videos to lighten things up to reduce her stress, but she wouldn't have any of it. Then it seemed that everything took a serious wrong turn.
However, the last time I got to our local dharma center, we were learning about the "Four Ways of Turning the Mind." The second begins "The nature of all phenomena is impermanence...." The fourth says, "In the three lower realms and even in the three higher ones there is not an instant of absolute happiness. I will avoid the root cause of my samsaric existence and practice the excellent path of peace to Enlightenment."
This lady has taught me the truth of both of these by painful experience. Furthermore, although I diligently strove to avoid any expectations, it was hard not to entertain thoughts of this beginning friendship developing into something deeper and more fulfilling. Hence I had to suffer the pain that comes from attachment.
The lessons may be valuable and ultimately leading toward Enlightenment, but I don't haver to enjoy them.