Okay. I'm back here again as I've had a little time to reflect on more of what Paul has to say.

Rebuke the unquiet. Comfort the feeble minded. Support the weak. Be patient to all men. Make sure people are not nasty to each other. Always do what is good for each other (you Thessalonian Christians: read, your brothers and sisters in Christ) And. Towards all men.  

I'd like to look at these comments for a moment.  Rebuke the unquiet.  Well.  At first glance, I'm thinking, tell people who are always shooting their mouth off to stop it.  Or, alternately, it could mean our children.  Who are also the unquiet.  But in a Christian context after some discernment, I have come to my own conclusion that it means to settle the agitated.  With firmness and gentleness, calm the restless, the agitated, the disturbed.  It looks to me like, "take charge of situations and persons which are spinning out of control."  

 Comfort the feeble minded.  Don't even think it.  Paul means the other feeble minded.  Of course I have my moments, and in them, yes, I want comfort.  But let's talk about the extremes.  It is not “ignore the feeble minded, pretend they don't exist, keep them at arms length.” But comfort them.  

Be patient to all men.  Even your husband. For he, too, in some intangible way, is trying to understand you and be patient with you. And you sons, who may not be men yet, but they count.  Be patient to all men.  This is a profound thought.  Y'mean, like all the time?  Yes, my friends, I believe that is what He means.  It isn't natural.  Nope.  So we need to rely on the supernatural.  Prayer.  Begging for the capacity to be patient to all men.

Always do what is good for each other and towards all men.
Please note the opening word in the previous statement. 

Paul very specifically avoids phrases like, try to do what is good, make an effort to do what is good, hope to do what is good...it's a command, a directive.  
   
It's the how that always gets me.  I am so stinking lame.  But.  If, with every breath I take, I pray, with every interaction I have, I pray, with every thought the enters my feeble mind, I pray.  Maybe.  God lays things on your heart at a time when He knows the impact of the thing will weigh you down until you start.  Until you take that first step. 

Can you imagine, a life of praying ceaselessly, of taking any of this particular group of people, the hysterical, the feeble minded, the weak, the nasty, and take charge of the situation through prayer.  Intent, personal, loving, firm prayer.  To look at them, talk to them, as prayer?