Helpless 2

Your collegue. You work with him everyday. You have lunch with him. You go to drinks with him. You go to social activities with him.

How do you react when you find out that his sister is dying and has only days to live? And you find out from his boss, not from him, as he only told his boss since he was taking leave.

All I could do was sent a SMS to him to tell him that I would be praying for him and his family.

He turned up at the office today, and he was in his room the whole day. When I left the office I went to his room, and talked to him. I didn't know what to say when he described to me what his sister was going through. All I could say was that he should spend more time with her and stop worrying about work, since someone else could do his work. I advised him to do what he felt was best so to avoid any regrets afterwards.

He then told me he wished he was religious so that he could feel better. I told him that being religious wouldn't necessary help in situations like this, knowing in my mind that it would be worse if a Christian sees his loved one, who is not a Christian, dying.

I thought of evangelising but felt that it wasn't the right situation to do so.

We are so helpless.