My Insufficiency

Man, do you ever have those people that you feel connected to from the beginning of your friendship? Do you ever have those same people be the people in your life that your life is the most different from?
I have one of those people in my life right now. I dearly love this person, like a sibling to me. But, when I look at the way this person is trying to live their life, all I see is emptiness. It breaks my heart, and yet I don't know what else to do but to pray and love this person.
I feel insufficient for the task of loving them though. Maybe that's a good thing. Cause honestly, I can't love this person on my own. Divine help definitely needed. I think I need a heart about 70x bigger than mine. I guess maybe I feel so weird because I am not used to feeling unable to listen to and love people... especially people that I feel so connected to. It's just strange.
See part of my nature/spiritual gifting includes really loving to sympathize/empathize with people. I love listening to their hurts, sharing burdens, supporting them, talking through things together... So its completely off that I feel completely unable to do that adequately for this person.
Maybe it's just God's way of saying that I can't do this on my own. Which I know... intellectually. Maybe I need to learn it more by heart instead of just by head. So maybe this "weirdness" is God-given to make me not screw this one up.
I just feel like I am holding a crystal vase in crisco encased hands. One little slip, and I don't know how it will turn for the worst. Delicate movement and steady hands are needed, and I feel very strongly my insufficiency and own fragility. I have a huge propensity to royally botch this, and yet I feel that the stakes of a soul are so high. Maybe its how openly this friend has embraced me that makes me scared of doing that one little thing that will send them over the edge into hate.
Because this friend also NEEDs me to be in their life. Reaching out so far for anything that resembles love. My heart breaks to think of them continuing their search and winding up in all kinds of sad places. Already I can see how my hesitancy about issues makes them question what they believe on that subject. They don't understand how or why I do the things that God has laid on my heart. Like running off to Africa when I could have a good paying job here, or saving myself for marriage, or being forgiving of people that have hurt me so badly. But God, in time, I hope this friend can look past me, and who I am, and see God for who He is. May I be the conduit of something bigger, something worth living for, something great and grand, an adventure out there only waiting to be accessed!

How I want to stake my claim on this friend for Christ and His glory!