Major tenets of Christianity: Loving your neighbors with forgiving your enemies – that’s a burden blessing to hang on one side of the cross we bare – AND another tenet of “burden blessing” is NUMBERING OUR DAYS, “ESTABLISH THE WORK OF OUR HANDS “, living life as FULFILLED COMPLETE however short, to make the most of the day and days, and ON this branch of our cross, actually on sides, slide on as much GLADNESS too, for the Lord Himself will carry these weights with us.

Make us Joyful in burden blessings. 

We are taught by Jesus to forgive others and forgive our own humanness too, best we can, along the way, and hand God the issues. God has won the war, overcome the world, let us live in appreciation all while still climbing our mountains. 

I know the saying goes: we must bear our own cross. Yet SURELY Jesus Himself and His angels and our friends help us carry – they are who are placed UNDER our cross, LIFTING our burdens – making our way through life more sure…  Just KEEP MOVING… We bear our friends’ situations too, helping carry their blessing burdens. 

Is this cross we bear a burden or a gift? A hook for more burdens or a tool for more lifting power. Well, yes, all, because our way in brokenness to unbrokenness is through Jesus’s sacrifice and God’s healing in us of this short journey’s end, Heaven…

Heaven, I can’t wait but I am in no rush!

Numbering our days was on Moses’s mind when he wrote Psalm 90, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

May we pray a morning prayer and praise: “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.”

And so let us live with wisdom to accept God’s support – for our acceptance support of this cross we bear, to live under all the burdens, but yet to rise in it all anyway, to rise in the GLORY of God’s Mercy and Grace. 

Yes, Lord, “Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.”

And keep WORKING and WALKING: “May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.”

AMEN AMEN 

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Psalm 90

A prayer of Moses the man of God.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death — they are like the new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.

May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.