How do you carry your burdens??

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." John 14:27

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised aglass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"

Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz.

The lecturer replied, The absolute weight doesn't matter.

It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that's not aproblem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.

He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management.

If we Carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on.?

For my yoke is easy, and My burden is light." Matthew 11:30

As with the glass ofwater, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.

So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work/life down.

Don't carry it home.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if youcan.

Relax; pick them up later after you've rested.

Life is short.

Enjoy!

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

1* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

2* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

3* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.

4* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

5* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, don't worry about it.

6* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

7* Never buy a car you can't push.

8* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

9* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

10* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

11* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

12* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

13* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

14* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

15* Always live your life as if all are watching, don't be a part time christian.

"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." II Corinthians 3:5