A burden shared…
The action today in the Love Life Live Lent series is to ‘carry a burden for someone who can’t manage it themself’. This is a classic ‘Good Samaritan’ action that is just a simple thing that most of us can do every day. Or is it…
I was thinking about how I would cover this action, and, as ever, thought that I would see how the day unfolded to allow me to do this. In the simplest terms, my two year old daughter sorted this out for me this morning as she was trying to take a big bag of books to the childminder. Although she had stuffed the bag full of books, she found that she was struggling to carry it – so handed it to me just outside of our door.
However, I have been thinking a bit deeper about this and it is not just the physical things that we all have to carry. There are all of the other bits of the world that we have to carry with us every day – in our hearts and in our heads. It is this that I have been really thinking about as I spend a reasonable amount of my time trying to help people who are struggling with the cares of life.
The world seems to be so busy today and the expectations seem to be so great, but we all suffer from the relentless pressure and stress of life. One of the key principles I try to live with is to look around me at the people I come into contact with and to try to talk to them about life and maybe to share some of their burden. I feel very blessed with my life and just want to be able to give a little bit back………
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