the bearable lightness of being: just some lighter thoughts today…

It’s said, that His burden is light. What does that mean practically for us? We know that His is actually heavy, but He only gives us the amount we can each handle. Some thoughts on that:

 We can only bear the amount of light given to each of us. That is our range of constellation or what St Paul calls our radiance. We are responsible for developing that radiance however. We are collaborators in spiritual growth.

 When I burden bear outside of His radiance for me each day, i soul it, and get depressed or overwhelmed. But His promise is to not give us more than we can handle “in Him.” Now, the key is to be “in Him”, then we only gain on our heart’s shoulders the part for us in Him each day. We do our part, but He carries the actual load.

  Spirituality is not passive in that way. And He will not give us more than we can bear—that amount meant to form us properly, if we let those trials become His Victories and formation of His Life, in us.

 Thinking about the bearable light. That amount of light we are meant to collaborate with God in. That level of understanding, insight and ability to live well, to walk well-ie, in Him. That’s our part of the garden to tend.

 We are not in competition with other’s domains, but responsible to make our own fruitful-in every area, while helping others make their fruitful. Our paths are held safe and progressively revealed by Him (Ephesians 2:10—the paths prepared beforehand to be our way). They are meant to co-bless. Our paths in Him cannot be taken away or lessened in Him, for they are help in His Heart—the Author and Finisher! So we need not defend our true selves or our paths. Let Him. Once you move out of this defending self mode, you have much more energy to become and be who you really are, and reflect the amount and type of light you are meant to carry.

In the world, you have constant defense and competition, not so in Christ. You have resting and knowing, and walking on into Him. Your callings then get revealed!

  The pleasant lines of our inheritance. As we get older we start to sense the parameters of our particular labor. The circumference of our domains of blessing.

 We stop trying to move into or be in competition with one another’s fields, but tend our own in order to bear fruit which blesses others.

  It is part of knowing the pleasant lines of our particular domains in life. What part of the situation we are meant to bless, and when to defer to others. So we don’s “soul” effort it into place. When young, we are searching for our fields. We are learning to possess them, to become them; then, we move on into seasons of cultivation so the fruits of our lives can bless others. Each of us have unique paths in this sense, which are somehow mysteriously networked in God. Life is beautiful in that way, and His burden is Light!