Why does it make a difference to be there?
It isn’t you. It’s Jesus.
I’m Jesus??
No, but when you care enough to be there for someone, Jesus uses your love to mediate His love.
And if I don’t believe in Jesus?
That doesn’t matter. (Well, it does, but that’s a different subject.) We aren’t talking about what you believe. We are talking about how the world is made.
Huh?
The world was made by a God who was willing to assume our form, walk our path, bear our burden. So it’s a world where “being there” for someone else makes all the difference. You can sense the larger love that someone being there represents, whether you believe it or not.