This stance is one of understanding and one that places responsibility for getting necessary help in hands of person who needs it. Don’t rescue! Many people play victim role so that others can play rescuer role. Give people opportunity to find strength they need and you will both gain.

Practice Empathy

Practice using empathy next time you’re in a situation where someone is suffering emotionally. Assuming this person is an otherwise functional and healthy human being, be present with them in an effort to understand what you might be feeling in a similar situation. Don’t try to have their feelings. Instead, trust that they have inner resources necessary to solve their problems and to get help they need to move forward. Let them feel their feelings, express their concerns, and shed their tears. Don’t try to fix anything for them. Just be with them with your heart open and with an inner and outer certainty that their’s is just one perception of their current reality and that they will find strength in your silent witness to their temporary fantasy of limitation.

About Author: Steve Davis, M.A., M.S., is an Facilitator's Coach, Infoprenuer, and free-lance human, helping facilitators, organizational leaders, educators, trainers, coaches and consultants present themselves confidently, access their creativity, empower their under-performing groups, enhance their facilitation skills, and build their business online and offline. Subscribe to his free weekly ezine at www.MasterFacilitatorJournal.com.

Some speak most eloquent words of love. Fewer show it in their lives. But, whatever they speak, actions speak even louder.

Surely, God must prefer to disassociate from situations where people misuse words that describe His character. And, wherever He isn't, it isn't love.

It is impossible to love until we (know God and) begin to love others as He loves us, because God is love and it's His Spirit that loves through us (1 John 4:8, 12b-13). Anything less is counterfeit.

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