‘…Like butter scraped over too much bread.’

How would you describe your feelings when you are feeling tired, out of salts, harassed or even stressed? When life has got you down, got the better of you, taken it out of you?

Can you relate to the J.R.R. Tolkien’s analogy in his book the Lord of the Rings given by one of the characters – Bilbo, the Hobbit – who has clearly had enough and appears quite warn out by life?

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

It is true that Bilbo at this point was over 100 years old and therefore these feelings of tiredness may have related, to some extent, to his age. However, the Bible tells us:

‘Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.’ (Isaiah 40:30) [READ MORE]

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Jo