Being in the Valleys of life is often very different from the valleys when riding a train. When I visualize coming into an open area between the mountains, I see beautiful green forests surrounding a lake of pure blue waves. But when we come to a valley in our lives, oftentimes beauty is the last thing we see.

I have a friend who is currently in one of those hard valleys. He received news of his sister having stage 4 cancer. The doctors informed the whole family that she didn’t have much time left to live. Beauty is nowhere insight for my friend and his family.

They will experience the downward feeling of emotions as their family member begins to pass away. At the bottom, they will have an emptiness inside of them that will seem to never leave. But as time goes on, and God shows his amazing love, they will slowly make their way out of the valley and back into the mountain paths.

We as their friends can come alongside of them and show God’s love to them as they work through their pains. We can comfort them with words and actions until they can stand up on their own once again.

Do you have someone in your life who is currently going through a valley? Are you helping them? Encouraging them? If not start today, because the pain and sorrow of a valley in one’s life requires friendship and God’s love to get through it with as few scars as possible.

I’m afraid to say that coming across valleys is inevitable, for trains and in life. We need to work together to get through them.