i'm worried about a friend....
ok so i have this friend right? i've known him since like 6th/7th grade... and i care a TON about him... he's like on of my best friends... and i'm really worried about him. i care about him so much and i really don't wanna see him go down the drain like he watched me do, before shults lewis... but i don't know how to reach him. i have basically no clue what to say to him that would even help. i just want to reach out and touch his heart with the love of christ(that i'm lacking a lil lately.. but yeah)and i just want to watch him get better, right before my eyes. he's like doing drugs, smoking, drinking, so many things that worry me to death every single night before i go to bed. i lay under the sheets and i wonder where he is, what he's doing, if he's okay... i feel like i'm his mother or something because i worry about him 50 times as much as i even talk to him. i love him so much, mostly as a friend and a brother, but yeah... if anything every ever, and i mean ANYTHING ever happens to him, i know that i'll blame myself for not doing something, anything... but thats the thing. i dont know what to do. how can i help him? is he so deep into this depression that i can't carry him out anymore without dragging myself in again? sometimes i tell myself to stop worrying about him because he doesnt seem to care much about me a lot of the time, but i feel like he does, deep down somewhere... maybe just maybe he cares about my wellbeing as much as i do his... at least i would hope that he would worry about me like i worry about him. i'm having some trouble with having faith in the lord because i feel so helpless in this situation... what am i supposed to do? Lord, give me an answer... show me....