Hey folks – I’m not sure what kind of schoolyard you grew up in, but the fairly rough and ready one of my childhood equipped me with a whole bunch of “folk wisdom” sayings. The subject line is one of those. Well, to be more accurate it’s kind of a “de-tuned” version of one of those, in which I’ve swapped out one bodily function for another. Like I said, it wasn’t the most refined playground. The point is that the accumulated wisdom of the years suggests that some things in life aren’t worth taking on, because you can’t beat them. There’s an important relationship between that wisdom and the wisdom of Jesus on anxiety. I think we can profitably explore that relationship and learn some things that might help us deal with anxiety in ways that are more life giving and less life disrupting. That’s what the Talky Bit will be exploring this Sunday.