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Love Sings
Love sings her song to distant lands floating gently above the world's din inviting us all, both great and small to ease our burdens and rest within Sadly a great many refuse to listen to messages deafness cannot know yet to those willing all are welcome and our hearts know the way to go Now softly we walk the way of love to her palace of mysteries revealed praying to lift the masses darkness that this day they may all be healed
Burdens
What are you carrying around?
If you’re like me, your honest answer is something like “more than I want to.”
All of us have burdens. Whether it’s the burden of a past (and every one of us has one). Or the burden of the present. Or the future.
Not to mention the burden of a crisis. Whether it involves health, family, finances, addictions, or all of the above.
It’s tempting to just dump it all. Drop all your burdens and run away from them.
A guy I went through school with tried. More than once.
Every few years, when it all got to be too much for him, he would bail. On everything.
He’d quit his job. Dump his significant other. Move to another state. And start again.
Every time he did – whether it was someplace warmer, or someplace colder, in the mountains, or at the sea.
Every time he did, in a few years he’d find that nothing really changed. That he’d traded the burdens from that old job, that old relationship, that old place. For a new set of the same stuff. Just with different people. In a different place.
Dropping your burdens and running away from them is an illusion.
Your burdens follow you. Because no matter where you go. Or who you cut yourself off from. You can’t get away from you.
Here’s what does work. Not carrying them alone. Not even trying to carry them alone.
And it starts with the most important relationship in your life. Your relationship with God.
How does that figure into our burdens?
One of the most subtle forms of pride is the unwillingness to get help. Even our unwillingness to admit that we need help. No matter how badly, how obviously we need it.
One of the hardest parts of our relationship of God is letting go of our pride. Even our perverse, self-injuring pride in bearing our burdens alone.
This matters, because the Psalmist calls God “The Lord who daily bears our burdens.”
The help you and I need each day to bear our burdens is ready and waiting. All for the asking.
Whatever burden you are carrying, know that you were never meant to carry it alone.
God is waiting to carry your burdens with you. If you’ll let Him.
Today's Readings
“Imagine what it does to our culture’s perception of Christ’s gospel when Christians are among the loudest of those disapproving of people being released from their debts. Lord, have mercy.” - Rev. Benjamin Cremer. Have yourself a peaceful, contemplative Good Friday!
Verse of the Day - Matthew 11:28
REST IS FOUND IN JESUS ALONE! Not in social media, not in a good movie, not in your boyfriend or girlfriend, and definitely not in a bottle. In HIM alone, HE will give you rest.
