What to Say?

I wanted for a while to start blogging, but not sure about finding the time, or even what kind of blog to begin. So this is what I have decided to do, When I am reading and preparing I always find interesting articles, videos or other blogs and I would like to share them with you.  I am planning on going on a mission trip in January 2013 to Bolivia and will also bring you parts of my journey there as well.

We all know people in our life that are dealing with very difficult situations. It can be most anything from family problems, deaths, sickness or many other things that we face in our lives here on earth. We as Christians want to be able to help them through these situations of life because they mean so much to us. There is a problem though, we are scared to cause more harm than we maybe we intended to do good. This being scared comes from not knowing what to say to people who are going or have gone through situations that we haven’t. The problem with not knowing what to say comes from not knowing what the answers to life struggles are. This fear of not knowing then begins to overpower our willingness to be there for them, and then causes us not to do anything at all as Christians. We often hear people who have gone through situations say; people seem to neglect me because they are not sure how to handle my struggles, or not know what to say. I thought this video was very interesting and thought provoking, and is relevant to this subject. Notice what he is saying and not saying in this clip.