Do you want a quiet soul? Do you want a peaceful spirit? Then draw lines. Draw limits. Create a margin and a buffer for your soul. Every day there will be issues, topics, and drama that cross our paths but are not necessary for us to understand. These things are on a need-to-know basis—and we don’t need to know. Let me be very practical here: gossip is something you can immediately eliminate. You don’t even need to pray about that one. People around you undoubtedly have a few hidden secrets and closet skeletons that you just don’t need to know. And if some well-meaning soul tries to inform you
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