Burdens

We go to church and leave our burdens there, like a big backpack that we carried in.  But too often, after the service, before we go out the back door, we pick up our burdens once again just like the coat that we checked as we came in.  If God is in charge of everything - and He is, and God knows what is going on in the world - and He does, then the difficulties and worries in our lives were allowed by God.  He uses difficulties to mold and to make us into the people that He wants us to be.  “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”  James 1:2-4

Said the robin to the sparrow,

“I should really like to know,

Why these anxious human beings

Rush about and worry so.”

Said the sparrow to the robin,

“Friend I think that it must be,

That they have no Heavenly Father,

Such as cares for you and me.”

-- Elizabeth Cheney