Stressed Out?

Have you been stressed lately? I remember the days when schoolwork overwhelmed me. It seemed like all my teachers would give the most work of the semester all at the same time. I'd have tests and papers and projects all due on one day. Not to mention the big game, trying to be the cool guy. Life goes so fast, sometimes even too fast to completely finish one thing before moving on to the next. Sometimes going so fast we forget to forgive, we forget to handle pain we forget to ask for forgiveness...thinking maybe in time we'll forget our struggles. Those struggles are called burdens. The more we forget to put them down the heavier they get and the harder it is to remember what life was like without them. Consider the words of Max Lucado, "There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is aking you to set them down and trust him. His is the father at the baggage claim. When a dad sees his five-year-old son trying to drag the family trunk off the carousel, what does he say? The father will say to his son what God is saying to you. 'Set it down, child. I'll carry that one.'" (Travelling Light, pg. 8)