The burdens mount if you let them.  Why do I generally choose to carry stones, bricks and driftwood around in my pack for awhile before I wise up and lay that trusty bag at the foot of the Cross?  Is it that I miss the weight, look good with a hunchback, that I feel I somehow deserve it or perhaps I keep on trying to do this on on my own authority and strength?  I don’t know because the whole things seems nonsensical to me.  My burdens are not my own, He has asked them of me.  Why then do I seek to deprive God the opportunity to care for me as the Loving Father He has proven Himself to be?

Maybe I don’t know love, or how to love to be exact?  Maybe I have held tight to my blinders and ear plugs as the Lord taught me of love.  Would a person that does not know love misunderstand so thoroughly that he would have no concept of its importance.  I feel this is right, this is sound thinking, that you miss the opportunity because you are so jaded or misinformed that you don’t even know that you are missing anything.  But how can we explain the man who knows the value of Love and still turns away from the opportunities to feel its majestic touch through forgiveness, fellowship or care?  There are only several possibilities as the ignorance can be removed as a potential cause.  One either a person out of a masochistic guilt or self loathing does not feel that they are deserving of God’s Love or they are just plain rebellious and don’t want to know the Love that is being offered in Grace.

I pray that each of us takes all the Love from God they deserve as His Children and that they spread that Love to all.  Lay down that pack, keep walking, don’t lie down yet, but give up the burdens.  He is waiting to give you rest.