Helping People

One of the challenges when you are dealing with people is to stay compassionate. It gets tough. You hear basically the same story over and over. Couple names switch, events are in different order, but it easily can turn into some sort of depressing country song. Now at the same time you can not allow yourself to fall apart at every sad story. A very difficult balance to say the least. So I have a couple of guidelines I like to follow. I thought I would share them:

1. People matter to God.
2. This is a fallen world with lots of problems
3. Most people who come to you for help, need it.
4. Trust a person until they give you reason not to.
5. Unfortunately, you are not able to change the whole world in 1 day.
6. God has given you every resource you need for today
7. Trust God in his leading.

There you go there is seven guidelines. You have anymore?