Wednesday December 10, 2025

Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’

Water gives life and natures the earth but it can also bring death and destruction. Spirituality or religion has given many people hope but when not properly placed, it has been responsible for many a war.

So why is his yoke easy and burden light. I think those who grew up around wooden or tailor made yokes understand this better. For city “boys” a yoke is a yoke. All you have to do is place it on an ox. But for village people, we know that the yoke has to be tailor made for each ox. When the yoke fits perfectly, it makes the load light.

I want you to be careful with a one size fits all kind of religion or church. Our needs are different and sometimes life is not black or white. Sometimes we are in the gray. Hake the older I get the grayer life has become and so I have learned to bite my tongue.

Our Lord will meet you where you are not necessarily where the church wants you to be sometimes.