Facing the burdens

After Matthew 11:28-30 

How do we face

the burdens of the day

with gentleness and

humility? He asks

us to consider what

it means, that we

reject domination, we

reject condemnation, we

reject any notion

of superiority. Gentleness

emerges from a changed 

heart, a loving heart,

a heart pained by the world

surrounding us. The world

knows anger and domination,

condemnation and condescension. 

The world does not know

gentleness, mistaking it

for weakness. Yet the gentleness

we are to pursue is a rock,

a great tower, a beacon.

 

Photograph by Stacie Clark via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

The Publication of the King James Bible – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.

 

In the Shadow of Alfred the Great – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

When the World Seems to Be Winning – W. Robert Godfrey at Ligonier.