Last year at a faith and science lecture Dr. Ian Hutchinson used a phrase that made me smile….one that I have come to use based on my own experience and understanding of the need…. to “tether to reality”. Tether… to restrain by setting the utmost length to which one can go. It is the setting of a boundary beyond which one cannot go. It is a mechanism of safety and protection for the one which is restrained by one who has more wisdom and provides care and supervision.
That is altogether different from being chained, fettered, bound, shackled, and held in a stronghold to prevent any freedom by one who wishes to prevent any movement. Think about it.