You weren’t meant to carry those burdens alone. Come away with me for a few minutes and sit beside me.
Share with me all you’ve been walking through, the easier parts and the hard challenges. I’m listening, or ‘all ears’, as they say. I want to hear it all, every burden and every emotion you’ve had in response.
Let the tears flow as you confide in me, let your mind and heart process it all. Now let’s put those burdens, some soul crushing even, into this box and I’ll help you close the lid tight.
Let me keep this box for you. If you do, I’ll give you a gift in its’ place. This gift contains joy, peace, comfort and relief. But in order to receive this gift I have for you, you must release the box of burdens we put together into my hands.
I long to take your burdens. I can handle them and I know exactly what to do with them, trust me. Let’s meet like this again, where you give me your burdens and I give you joy instead, sometimes greater strength, whatever you need. You are loved. – Jesus