The late Oscar Johnson told of a time when he was a small boy and went into the back yard to pick up wood for their fireplace. As he gathered the wood, it was so heavy for him to carry that he began to stagger under the weight. His father, seeing the boy’s problem, came out and picked him up, wood and all, and carried them into the house.

That is how God the Father wants to treat us as we carry life’s burdens. He desires to lift us, burdens and all, until we are safe in our Father’s house.