NOT A BURDEN
Magnifico is a movie about a young boy who is so good that his very positive disposition in life inspires the people around him to be good too. One poignant scene in the film is when the young Magnifico promised his sick sister a trip to the the town carnival. Since he was not able to raise enough money to rent a wheelchair that he initially intended to bring her sister on, he had to carry his sister on his back. Magnifico, who had a very small frame, would not flinch even if he obviously was having a hard time with the load on his back as he carried her excitedly and happily around the fair.
This was surely the writer’s take on an old story of how a man came upon a little boy carrying a still smaller boy, who was lame, upon his back. “That’s a heavy burden for you to carry,”said the man. “That’s not a burden,” came the answer. “That’s my wee brother.”
When Jesus says, “My burden is light,” He doesn’t mean it is easy to carry because it has no or less weight. It is light because of how we see it. Indeed, as Christians, there are loads that Christ has placed on our shoulders not because He wants to inconvenience us but because they are necessary for us to move on in this life towards the next. He gives them to us to make us better persons. Think about a father who lets go of a young son on a bike as the boy struggles to pedal forward, rise as he falls, and pedals again till he runs on his own.
Since the burden is given in love, then we ought to carry them with love. And that’s when the burden becomes light.Fr. Sandy V. Enhaynes
REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Are you carrying any burden now? Is it heavy or is it light? What can make it light?
Lord Jesus, grant me the grace to embrace my trials and crosses so that I may see the blessings wrapped inside them.
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