Bearing One Another’s Burdens

Monday’s Reflection

WE KNOW, most of us, that we are to bear one another’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ, but sometimes we don’t even try to do as much as we know. Yes, Christ has called us to love one another as he loved us, but we are often content to let our anger simmer, our grudges smolder. We sing “Let others see Jesus in you,” but we do not always try to see Jesus in others. We don’t work to see others as Jesus sees them. We just screw our eyes shut to anything or anyone beyond our pride and prejudice because we don’t much want to see beyond our own prejudice and pride.

- Thomas R. Steagald
Shadows, Darkness, and Dawn

From page 99 of Shadows, Darkness, and Dawn: A Lenten Journey with Jesus by Thomas R. Steagald. Copyright © 2010 by Thomas R. Steagald. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

Name what burdens you. Share your reflections.

Today’s Scripture Reading

Psalm 130

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