Lay Down Your Burdens

Beloveds, you do not always have to deal with everything. Some things will take care of themselves. You do not have to put out every fire. You do not need to pile your plate high. Sometimes you have too much on your plate. You cannot eat every bite of life, nor do you have to make everything right.

If you have a sense of having too much to do, you are taking too much responsibility upon yourself. You have responsibility in everything, and you also have the responsibility to not take on the world. You have to let some things go. You can let some things go. You are not meant to be a tiger.

Some people may need the advice to get off their chair and tackle some matters in life. I am thinking that may be advice for some others, but not for you. You have had your nose to the grindstone, and you are trying to solve more than you can solve.

Remember Me. You know how I operate. I do not get My dander up. I don't make a fuss. I amble along. The gears of the world are working. I have set the sun and the moon in motion, and I do not supervise them. They know what they are to do, and they do it.

I ask you to have some of that faith in Me. I do not mean for you to leave everything to Me. I do ask you to lay your burdens down, and pick up only a few to take with you. Some burdens you can leave to Me.

Consider your life like the weather. You do not feel that you have to control the weather at every turn. Even when the weather has gone to an extreme, you know it will right itself. You do not have to put your finger in every pie. You don't have to weep when it rains.

Of course, you do contribute to the weather, but you don't have to take it on as you too often take on matters in your own life. Contribute, but do not take over. Do what is yours to do. Close the windows, but do not feel that you have to order the rain to stop.

Some difficulties do better without your determination and resolve. Many of your personal difficulties will do better left to their own devices. You cannot hammer every nail.

Have you perhaps been hammering at life? You do not have to involve yourself in everything. Even in disputes, you can let them be.

You know, if you are walking to the store, you can only fit so much into your backpack. And your back, as well, can only carry so much. What is the point of carrying more than you can carry?

When you take a flight on an airline, there is only so much you can take on. You find you can manage without some of the items you wanted to take but had to leave behind.

Perhaps you can prioritize what you pack in life as well.

Truly, you are not meant to be Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.

No one else has to carry the world either.

If you are a farmer and you plant your crop, you plant it. You give it every care. Ultimately, however, you are not in charge of your crop. You do what is yours to do. You water it. You bless it. And you leave it to nature. Most of the time, nature comes through for you.

And, so, in personal issues, you can only do so much. Set up your relationships as best you can, and let life take its course, and let others do as they choose. You are not responsible for everyone's choices.