Getting it right means focusing on what's going on here and now. My friend is in a pit and needs someone who's willing to step out of their attitude and extend a hand. But all of this is commentary - study it, and then do it, practice right relations. Putting relationships first is full of opportunities, everyday. It really does mean something, this isn't to be casually dismissed as soft theology, naivete or wishful-thinking.
Right relationships make their impact in the most amazing ways.
Just the other day I was at a meeting of colleagues and I think everyone there wondered if one particular minister would show up. You see, she had just learned that she will soon die. She confessed she was never really sure if it meant anything. Well then, you ain't through learning, because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in himself 'cause the world done whipped him so.