She's...crying? This I didn't expect.

I feel so bad. Oh, but she's kind of laughing too, so maybe it's not all that bad. She's either crying because she's laughing or laughing because she's crying. We walk her outside where we can hopefully figure out what her flurry of emotions is all about. Turns out it's all because of fear (this would explain why as we approached her father in the car she screamed "Noooo!") Mike seems to know what to do, but even if he didn't he'd probably make it look like he did. Smart move -- it's little consolation to join someone in their panic. In any case, a problem is a problem and the answer remains the same:

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Often culturally manifested as "God won't give you anything you can't handle," but there's so much more to it:

"No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man."
What sobering truth! This makes little of "woe is me" mentalities and says to the self-pitying man "mm…nothing new." How can one call the Bible outdated, when albeit technology and trends have changed, man's greatest problems - pride, greed, lust, anxiety, jealousy, bitterness, loneliness, etc - have stayed the same since the beginning of time. God has been dealing with the same problems for millennia! It's comforting just to know that what you're going through is nothing new, that men in the past have come across it, and by God's grace have been delivered from it.

She's afraid to talk to her parents about her faith, because they might get mad and not let her go to bible study anymore. The fear of man is a crippling one. No matter what kind of confrontation, we all fear men at some point. Mike proceeds to tell her about friends in the past who have had the same fears and have overcome them. Even though their parents ended up forbidding them from church for a while, they continued to live their lives faithfully while obeying their parents wishes, and years later their parents ended up becoming Christian themselves. "God is faithful." You've made it this far, right?

"he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape,"
This dispels any retort along the lines of "I couldn't help it" or "that's just who I am." Every man has endured temptation before, every temptation allows that possibility. But while there is a light at the end, there is still a tunnel to a traverse. The verse makes the point of obstacle, connotations of pain and suffering. Why?

"that you may be able to endure it."
Notice the "that" <- this marks that the following is the purpose. God provides a way of escape (SO) THAT you can endure it. So the goal is endurance. Why?

James 1:2-4
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. This is the difference between blind faith and a tempered faith. Nowadays the concept of trusting the Bible often comes attached with ignorance and irrationality, imagining the person following the Bible because it's all he's ever known, all he's ever been taught, and he doesn't know why he believes. This is not the future James describes. James says to rejoice when (meaning you will) meet trials, because if you manage to endure then it's going to make your faith stronger.

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn" - C.S. Lewis