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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I…

I had been on staff with Young Life for about six months, when I picked up the phone. The shaky teenage voice on the other end was “Paul”. Paul was in 11th grade, and as best he could, he told me they just found his mom and she had taken…

Thoreau wrote about how he would need to go stand by a fire every night “to burn off the dross of the world that had collected that day.”  Whitman speaks of trying to get away from “the clank of the world.”  The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome…

You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Anxiety and worry are the result of fear rooted in pride. Worry gets heavy when you try to carry your own burdens…