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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Headaches

I work at a Christian Bookstore in Russellville called Heart and Soul. The title is from the command in Matthew to "love the Lord your God with all your Heart and Soul and Mind." I've been an employee there since October of 2009. It was a huge change from my past jobs. Ever since I've been able to work, I've worked at daycares, or I've baby sat. Simply because I'm going to be a teacher, so I should do that.
I needed a break, so I applied for Heart and Soul, and I was hired, obviously.

The first day on the job, my boss; Pam, told me a few things. She said that she had been in the business for 10 years now, and nothing could suprise her. I didn't figure so, I mean... 10 years on the job! I'd imagine you'd know all the secrets and suprises.

I went to work this past Thursday, February 25, 2010 (incase you don't know) and the first thing Pam said to me, at 12 o'clock pm (the store had been open for two hours now) was, "It's definitely been a day today!" of course, I said... "What do you mean by that?" Pam replied with a variety of stories, from deaths to church problems. All in two hours. Pam takes on a whole lot, just by owning a Christian bookstore in a medium-sized town in Arkansas. She has the burden of holding other people's guilt, holding them while they cry and promising to help them carry their burden. She's phenomonal. She has headaches. She prays and gives everything to her savior.

What a beautiful picture of what we're supposed to be. Pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up, but blessed is the man who has a friend to walk with him along the way. (that's the Jessie translation, not the NIV or the ESV or anything.) Blessed. We're blessed if we help others carry their burdens to the cross.

Dear Lord, help me to be burdened, so I can experience what it feels like to give them to you, in complete surrender.