Advice in difficult times: What I learned from a telephone counselor

“How many callers did you have?” “Two.” “And, could you help them?” “Who knows.

I think no."

One of them was disabled, a student in a wheelchair, lonely.

Looking for friends at the university.

The second was a farmer from Bavaria, 57 years old, his parents have died, he still lives with his mother.

He is looking for a wife.

“But how should I help them? I said I can pray for you. And get yourself an Internet connection and go to a dating agency there. ”But I can understand the callers that they call Horeb. You heard his voice too. Horeb comforts. You just try and grab the straw.