In Ethiopia, where bridges are scarce, experience has taught the people a simple technique to prevent them from being swept away to deeper waters and stronger currents when attempting to cross rivers or streams on foot. They simply find a big stone, put it on their shoulders as ballast, and with the extra weight, have a firmer footing while the waters rush past their legs. Carrying the extra "burden" makes a safe river crossing possible.
Applied to life and its many precarious paths, as ironic as it may sound, we NEED the ballast of our burdens to prevent us from being swept away into complacency or a fase sense of self-sufficiency. Our burdens keep us grounded in reality and humble. We also are more aware of and sympathetic toward others who are also shouldering burdens. We could easily be overwhelmed with our own burdens, but locking arms with others and sharing our burdens together makes them lighter. Thank you, Lord, for the blessing of my burdens; broaden my shoulders to bear them and to help others with theirs. Amen.
Bro. Rene
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