This morning I was working out when Stephen, Kate and Gavin were heading out for the day. Sometimes they come down to say bye but today I walked up from the basement to hug and kiss them goodbye. When I got to the kitchen I got a look from the three of them that said “what is she doing?”
What they were looking at is that on my legs were my exercise bands. I had worn the bands up the stairs to say goodbye.
After they left and I walked back down the stairs with the extra resistance on my legs and I laughed out loud.
Last week I was at my doctors and in her loving but straight forward way, she told me I needed to stop carrying the weight of the world around with me.
Yet here I was literally walking around my house purposefully adding more resistance to each step. Yes, I know the bands were for my physical body but the truth is that it’s a been journey for me to lay things down recently, from things that are happening in my inner circles to the events in the world. I’ve had a heaviness within I’ve been working to release.
A number of months ago when I was in the same cycle of heaviness I felt like God spoke to my heart saying, “why do you feel the whole world on your shoulders when I have it in the palm of my hands?”
This humbling truth is part of my life’s work; to let go and trust God with what is His to do and not carry what’s His to do around with me.
If you can relate, and are carrying around things in your heart and mind that are God’s work, and not ours, I invite you to join me to…
pause. breathe. pray.
May we take the time to sit quietly with God and share with him all that we are carrying around within us. He already knows our hearts but it’s cleansing to take the time to purposefully share it with Him. May we pray that our mind be renewed by Spirit to help us let go and trust God, so we can experience a lightness within, like I did this morning when I took my resistance bands off.
With love and hope,
Shawn
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Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
- Matthew 11:29-30