Sunday, January 21, 2018

Don’t Just Do Something—Stand There!

Be there. That is the most important thing you can do when someone is hurting. Just be there.
Whether they're hurting because of the sickness or death of a loved one, the sickness or death of a relationship, or some other personal crisis—even a crisis of their own making—your presence can lift them up. Your connection to them might just be the difference between life and death. 
You might have words of comfort or you might comfort them with the silent language of compassion.  Either way, 'being there' is likely to get you way outside of your comfort zone.  Do it anyway. 
No one is designed to carry the burdens of life alone; we are designed to support each other through the valleys of life.  
And as you bear others' burdens remember Jesus is the ultimate burden-bearer.  There is no burden you bear—whether you bear it personally or vicariously—that Jesus will not carry with you.  
'Bear one another's burdens and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.’     Galatians 6:2

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