HOW TO MAKE A BURDEN HEAVIER?

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Two monks approached a river where the bridge was out.

Seated by the river was an older woman who could not, because of the shallow but rushing water, walk to the other side.

She was quite overweight and it was not easy for the two monks to lift her and between them carry her to the other side, but they did. Once put down, she thanked them and went on her way.

The monks rested awhile and then continued their journey.

One of the monks, however, could hardly take a step without complaining, “That foolish woman who did not check out some other way to make it across the stream. My back is killing me and getting stiffer by the minute.”

Variations on the complaint continued for mile after mile.

Finally, the other monk turned to his complaining friend and said, “You may wonder why I am not complaining. It is quite simple. I set her down five miles ago.”

We do that, don’t we? Too often, really. Don’t use the SCRIPTURAL second mile to remove resentments but rather mile after mile of living feed them.

So? Why grow toward love rather than grow toward more resentment? Because growth in whatever direction you choose is evidence of the kind of person you actually desire to become.

Do you know what you do when you walk that second mile?

You reach out to understand, in a new way, the mind of Christ.

If you do not use that second mile to mellow, you muddy your soul. Walk that second mile the way Christ wants you to and you begin to understand the Kingdom Ethic in a new and more vigorous way.

Why walk the second mile hand in hand with Christ?

Because it leads you to not have pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, religion without sacrifice or politics without principle. (A redirection of thoughts by Mahatma Ghandi)

It is a spiritually cleansing mile. A cleansing, clearing 20/20 moral visionary mile.

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Jan 20 THE LOUD SOUND OF SILENCE
Jan 12 WHAT IS SO DIFFERENT ABOUT STARS?
DEC 29 HAVE YOU GRADED YOUR VALUE SYSTEM RECENTLY?
Dec 20 DO YOU TOLERATE TOLERANCE?
Dec 17 BE A REACHABLE!
Dec 10 TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND PUNT
Dec 3 GOD HAD A DREAM
Dec 1…THE SECRET POWER OF THE SECOND MILE
NOV 25…ARE YOU A SPIRITUAL ANOREXIC? ARE YOU READY WITH READINESS?
Nov 11 LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FOREVER,
Nov 4…AN UNEXPECTED HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS
Nov 1 …ARE YOU SNIFF AND SNUFF OR HEM AND HAW

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