I saw a person going to work today. She was walking through the crosswalk , snow falling,she was in her overcoat with a laptop case hanging from on hand and the other holding a briefcase. First thought was "WEIGHT", she looked weighed down by the day's burdens.
I pulled into the parking lot a work and saw a person going to work closing her car door , in the snow, while holding a cellphone to her ear , locking the door and carrying a briefcase. Thought "CARE".
Weight and care can be lifted by believing and having faith that someons can help carry our burdens and to know the " best is yet to come". God cares for us even when are lives are barren of obvious fruit.
We each have had close friends that would "pack up our sorrow" and carry it for us. Similarly, God has done that for all who believe by being nailed to a tree.
Recently i was walking and saw Three large trees. Together they seemed to brighten the landscape. The trees did not have leaves and it seemed they were waiting for Spring- it is near. The trees seem to shout Spring is near while waiting to blossom with fresh new life!
Our Daily Bread
Pack up your Sorrows
During the turbulent years of the 1960s, popular music in America was a strange mixture of protest and patriotism. Some songs lashed out against war, greed, and injustice in society, while others affirmed duty to country and traditional values. But “Pack Up Your Sorrows,” written by Richard Farina and Pauline Baez Marden, seemed to fit all of the categories with its focus on the quest for personal peace. The refrain said the following:
Well, if somehow you could pack up your sorrows,
And give them all to me
You would lose them, I know how to use them,
Give them all to me.
Perhaps everyone hoped that someone really could bring them peace.
The good news is that there is Someone who can! Isaiah 53 is a prophetic picture of Israel’s promised Messiah. Christians see its fulfillment in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. “Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows . . . . He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed” (vv.4-5).
Jesus took our sins and sorrows on Himself so that we could be forgiven and have peace with God. Will you give Him your sorrows today?
Never a burden that He does not carry;
Never a sorrow that He does not share;
Whether the days may be sunny or dreary,
Jesus is always there.
—Bertha Lillenas. ©1934 Homer A. Rodeheaver.
No sorrow is too heavy for our Savior to bear.
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