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Burden
2007-05-16 04:46:00
For my yoke is easy,and my burden is light.Matthew 11:30 Somehow life is a burden,an unseen burden,hanging either around your neckor around or inside your heart.These shadowy burdens lift, float,waver, wane, and bear down, asthe tides of life ebb and flow.Life takes on many colors, from a dark dreary grey, to a prismatic cartwheel ofgay colors varying in density and length,as life's situation shift, as emotions move, change, as inner and outer factors appear and move on, leaving whatever residue the beaches of my life accept or cling to.Somehow the effort seemingly is just too muchor useless to reject the waste of life,even knowing the disaster that submissionto the useless brings.Why is misery so easy to acceptand optimism so difficult to apprehend?Are the powers of darkness too intense,too alluring, to the soul that carries the burden of lovethat finds the fulfillment of that lovetoo elusive and too tangibly to get hold on it?Are the better things of life too hazy and intangible?...