Now we exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
The Presentation
For just a moment, I was stumped. My counselee told me about how draining it was for her to have to restrict her routine in order to be available by 7pm for her middle-aged daughter’s circadian phone call. Every evening, her daughter would relive a trauma she suffered several years previously, an event which has led to her inability to hold a job, attend church, or do anything productive or helpful. This loving and supportive mother desired to do right by her daughter, but she was concerned at the lack of progress her daughter was making. She came to a point at which she asked me an excellent question.
The Question
“Do you think I’m really helping her or just enabling her?”
For her, it was a moment that expressed great vulnerability. Dependent upon my counsel, she might be challenged to change a long-standing course of action that had become familiar and comfortable to both of them. For me, it was one of those moments when the Lord gave me a kind dose of illumination to apply
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