This gem of instruction came from a nursing supervisor to one of her nurses. The nurse came into the supervisor's office almost unable to unbend. "What's wrong?" "Than man in the room down the hall must weigh 300 lbs. Lifting him almost broke my back." To which the supervisor replied, "Honey, remember your training; it is not the weight of the burden but how you lift it that counts."
My, but how we need to remember this! Likely, most of us have had adequate teaching on how to carry our burdens, but we have to do our own training, for training is putting theory into practice. And if we have not attended to the training, then when heavy burdens come, we may falter under them.
It is difficult to remember our teaching if we skip the training til the time something crashes in on us. A death in the family, a rebel child, rejection by an employer, a checkbook suddenly found to be floating in red; these can really put us in a tailspin if we have not been practicing what we preach.
We have such wonderful heroes to imitate in courage! It was when enemies surrounded him like a pack of hungry wolves that David sat down and calmly composed those famous lines: "The lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want."
When he could scarcely tell which enemy was worse, the one in the church or outside the church, Paul bent over his parchment and calmly dipped his quill: "Forgetting those things behind, I press forward to the mark."
Then night of nights when Jesus was in Gethsemane he prayed "Not my will, but thine." For 2000 years people have looked at how he bore burdens and became inspired. BL
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