Is it really true that God never gives us a burden that we cannot bear? I know many people find great comfort in this statement. It makes me uneasy. I keep thinking of people who really are crushed by this world. Some are burdened by grave injustices, the blind or cruel choices of others. Others face diseases or forces of nature too great for them to conquer. Did God give them these burdens? Could a good God have some mysterious reason to desire their pain?
These are the hardest questions of our faith, and I will not pretend to have any easy answers. The best I can do is to say that if one person is too laden down, it may be because he or she was never supposed to carry that load alone. We are not called to be so self-centered that we ignore another person's struggle, or so proud that we refuse to share our own. The weight of the world is light if we all shoulder it together.
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