Give Me Strength — engraved illustration of praying hands with rays of light
✦Carrying a heavy burden✦

A Prayer for a Heavy Burden

Some weights are visible and some are carried privately for years. Work, money, illness, the people who depend on you — it accumulates until rest feels like something other people get. There is an old invitation for exactly this.

A verse for today


“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

— Matthew 11:28–30


A reflection

A yoke is shared equipment — two animals pulling one load. The offer is not that the field disappears, but that you stop pulling alone. If you have been strong for everybody for a long time, this is permission to set the weight down for an hour and be carried instead.

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