When friends want to support each other through a crisis of faith

I was broken open by a crisis that led, in time, to everything I became, so I know a crisis of faith is a passage to be walked, not a problem to be fixed. Be a companion, not a fixer — what a friend in crisis most needs is not to be argued back to belief or handed answers, but to be accompanied through the passage they must walk themselves, so resist the urge to fix their doubt and offer steady presence rather than solutions. Let them doubt without making them feel they are failing — a friend in crisis often already feels they are failing, so do not treat their doubt as a shameful lapse but as a normal and even valuable passage, freeing them to move through it honestly rather than fighting it in shame. And trust the passage to lead somewhere, and stay for the whole of it — the crisis often leads to a deeper faith or hard-won peace, though the destination is invisible from inside, so trust it and accompany your friend the whole long way, not only its dramatic beginning. Companion, don't fix; allow the doubt; stay for the whole passage. What is your friend going through?