Volumes have been written on the best way to encourage and help loved ones as mountains are climbed, valleys are traversed, storms are navigated, and deserts are crossed. My thoughts are but a few.
First, foremost and always, our human insight and expertise are finite and often wrong. Thus, Scripture and prayer must guide us to the wisdom and love of our infinite God.
Our creed must hold stalwart and unyielding to “Let go and let God”. However, for me and my sometimes-overstepping personality, it, also, takes reiterating doses of my personally penned mantra: nose and knows out; knees and needs in; hear and here reaching out; heart and soul pulling in.
Now, having, in effect, put myself out of the driver’s seat, God, unhindered, can pilot my loved one’s combat mission. God, knowing my propensity to talk, reminds me that if I feel prone to open my mouth, the most helpful and reassuring words to come out of it are: “It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”. Deuteronomy 31: 8 (ESV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 