If one sees a neighbor who seems to be in need of help, one tries to give it. But one also knows, through long, painful experience, that one cannot help a person who absolutely refuses to be helped.
This fact, however, does not relieve one of the obligation to try to help....
For it is in the measure of the love we show for our neighbor, that God sees how much — how completely — we love Him.
JMHO FWIW.
Thank you ever so much for writing, dearest Alamo-Girl, sister in Christ!