2 comments to “Help for Military Families–What Works Best?”

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   Comment by Kelly:
   Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 2:09 am

   Don’t offer to help me if you’re not willing to follow through. It’s very hard for me to ask, so why don’t you just anticipate my needs and come over with a meal, mow my lawn, drive me to my physical therapy appointment, or babysit for me. I’ll return the favor when my crisis is over and if I can’t because you have moved or deployed or whatever, then I promise to pay your kindness forward to some other military member or spouse or child. Programs, websites, briefs, and seminars are useful, but simple human love put into action is the answer to this question.

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   Comment by Chaplain Campbell:
   Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 7:47 am

   Thanks for your candid reply … reminds me of the Book of James that says,

   “If a brother or a sister is without clothes and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,’ but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.”
   James 2:15-17 Holman Christian Standard Bible

   Have you experienced the kind of “human love put into action” that you mention?

   Chaplain Campbell

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