Sharing the Burden

By |Published On: September 27, 2019|Categories: 1-Minute Radio Program|
A beach cruiser bicycle with a wooden crate on it as a basket.

Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada, and I resonate where the Bible describes the four friends who tore through a roof to lower their paralyzed buddy at the feet of Jesus. I picture myself as that paralyzed friend, and it’s why I so love this poem by Bev Engeldinger. She wrote:

Would you be my stretcher bearer when I can no longer stand?  
Would you pick up a corner of my pallet in your hand?  
This burden’s just too heavy, I find I cannot bear;  
Its pain, its grief, its sorrow; and so I chance to dare –  
To ask if you would carry me through valleys dark and wide;  
Then set me safely down again where peace and hope abide.  
God said His yoke was easy and His burden would be light;  
That’s surely why He sent you to help me through the night.

Today, be that one who lowers a paralyzed friend through the roof; please be a stretcher bearer who brings wounded people to the feet of Jesus.

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