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         (Dad:) Some people are so afraid of wildfire, they have no fire. Some people try to so completely control the fire that it's quenched, and things become cold and lifeless. But the wildfire that has no control also does damage. You must find the balance in the center, so that there is fire, but it's controlled enough that it doesn't burn down the house and the fields.
         This is how it is with shepherding. You can't shepherd so tightly that everyone is bound and no one is free and no one can follow the Lord for themselves. But if you have no shepherding, if you allow only wildfire, it will hurt and destroy. It will burn others. You have to find the proper balance, folks! (ML #3067)



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