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Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

—Ps 68:19

• In the movie The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Frodo the hobbit is called upon to carry a great burden—a destructive ring of power—to Mount Doom on a quest to destroy it before it falls into the hands of the evil Sauron. As he draws nearer to Mount Doom, Frodo finds his burden too great to bear. Seeing Frodo labor under the weight of the ring, his friend, Samwise Gamgee, carries Frodo’s pack—and eventually Frodo himself, when his friend is no longer able to walk.

• The strong carry the burdens of the weak, whether by helping with a fellow hiker’s pack or carrying a weary child.

• Praise God, who is our Burden-bearer. When we become weary and come to the end of our physical, emotional, or spiritual strength, we can look to God to bear our burdens.

• Reflect on Jesus, who bore our burden of sin on his shoulders on the cross.