As I drove back home from taking the kids to school yesterday I noticed the trees burdened with the snows that had recently fell. They were caught unprepared by not having ample time to drop their leaves. The scene almost instantly had me thinking of the burdens that we all carry. Some because we have made wrong choices and others only because we are mortal and are subject to the trails that living brings, sickness, poverty, riches, death...etc. Many of these trees had no one to help and thus they bowed beneath the load and some limbs could not hold the weight and tumbled to the ground. Some of those broken limbs causes more damage to unexpected individuals.
So it is with our burdens, when there are none to help they become too much to bear and we too break under the heavy load. Some of us may be too proud to ask for the needed help, while others of us are pleading for it. In either circumstance Christ stands waiting for us to unload them upon Him. In His carrying of the cross it was symbolic of His willingness to carry all of our burdens too. Come unto Him. He has repeatedly stated that the arms of mercy are extended all the day long (Alma 5:33)
Those of us that have entered the waters of baptism and have taken upon us the name of Christ are under obligation and covenant to bear one another burdens. To mourn with those that mourn, and to be witnesses of Him wherever we may find ourselves. Whether we are rich or poor, we have been blessed with gifts of the Spirit to accomplish this great work. The Lord is calling upon us to be the savor or the world. To hold up right principles. To be kind and gentle, to love one another in a world that is in so much need of it. I only write to remind us to not allow the things that divide us to define us, but let our common belief and covenant heal all of our Father's children. I love Him, because He first loved me. I love you because He loves us. I know He lives.
