Spiritual Lessons
Burdens
You have a burden. And if you're
like most people on earth, you more than likely have multiple burdens.
A burden can be that 104th
thing on your plate, it can be a relationship, it can be watching a
sibling struggle, it could be depression, family politics,
health...anything.
I want to encourage you that you
have three options on how to deal with them, and only three.
1: You can leave them.
Mentally, physically, emotionally. Burdens are frightening. They
are overwhelming. They are painful. They are more than you can
handle. So you can turn away from them and think on something else,
do something else, ignore that burden. It's sometimes easier to stop
trying. To stop caring. Leave. Run away. This is option number
one.
2: Man up! Take them on, full
charge. You're tired of the guilt of apathetically ignoring the
situation, and no-one else is doing anything about it. As a good,
strong daughter you take it upon your shoulders to face the problem.
If so-and-so can't: you will. You rush in and give relief.
Nevermind the fact that you're crumbling. Nevermind you're hurts.
You will give aid, even if it kills you. This is option number two.
3: You pick up the burden.
It hurts. You allow yourself to feel the grief and the pain or the
stress and you stretch out your arms, holding it up for God to take
it from you if it's His will. You admit you aren't strong enough.
Some of these burdens aren't your responsibility. You hand them over
to Someone who can take charge. Some of them are fears that must be
faced or they will always shadow your steps. Some of them are people
who only need someone to listen, not to fix them. You choose not to
ignore or to take charge, but to silently bear the grief and let
God deal with it. It still hurts, but there is no apathy, no
responsibility, no fear, no pride; you are simply a channel for God
to move thorough. He in you is strong enough to hear someone out.
To face the frightening relationship. To live another day with
illness. To know whether to say no, or to continue on. To carry a
secret grief. To love the unloveable. To be secure in the midst of
family turmoil. He through you carries burdens. It hurts to have
Him rend your heart in order to reach out of you for someone else,
but ultimately, it is Him that does the carrying. You're just the
little box He chooses to live inside. The vessel.
There is no question whether you
have burdens.
The question is how are you going to deal with them?
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This is very good Toni. Simply true.
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