Inspiration

Lightening the Load

Reflections for contemplative living

What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own self. When I am puffing myself up with my own self-importance, I’m laboring under all that weight. Jesus asks us to become like a child, take the weight off your shoulders.  He says, “Put on the weight of my yoke of my obedience to the Father.”

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