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Thought for the Week

Bawling Calf Syndrome

I don’t know if there is such a thing but having lived in farming county all my life I can understand there could be. If you have ever seen a young calf separated from its mother, you understand the calf will do a lot of bawling. It misses its mother and wants to be with her. So, it bawls (calls out in its own language) for her to come and rescue it from its distress and lonely condition. It is hard to distract a calf from doing this. Actually, I suppose many young animals experience the same thing. We just may not be aware. When reading the Psalms, we notice this sort of thing as recorded oft...

 

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