This past week I gave a Children’s sermon about prayer, I don’t know if the children understood it but I had plenty of adults who appreciated my metaphor. I used a bucket of rocks and explained how the rocks represented our burdens. Our burdens weigh us down and are often hard to carry on our own. Each rock represents a concern. We have concerns about our grandfather who is sick, or a sibling who is having a hard time. We struggle with work or school, or paying the bills. We miss our parents or friends who have died and we mourn their loss. We've made some mistakes and we feel bad, we feel guilty and ashamed. We worry about our world, all the injustices, a lost plane, and the people who do not have enough food to eat. All of these burdens weigh us down like a bucket full of rocks. Yet if we have a friend to help us carry the bucket it is not as heavy. And if we share our burdens with others and allow the people around us to cart a few of the rocks with us our load isn't so heavy. If we lift up our concerns to God, then the bucket is much more manageable. That is how I believe it is within the life of the Church and with a relationship with God. Life can certainly weigh us down with a big bucket of rocks, yet as we journey together and with God the load becomes easier to bear.
So I encourage you to lighten your load and keep sharing and keep praying!
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