Carry One Another's Burdens

I have a tendency to try to carry Everything alone. It’s heavy and exhausting. Spinning my wheels, burning the candle at both ends, at the end of my bandwidth. 

This great weight I’m shouldering, trying to balance, and I’m getting to the end of myself. 

If I would just stop and look around, I would realize I’m not carrying it all alone, as I had thought. If I would just stop and think about it, I would realize there are people helping, and others who would like to. 

Then I would turn around and see who is helping me (when I didn’t even realize it). I would see, even, some of the beauty in the things I was carrying-- beauty I was blind to when I falsely imagined the full burden came down on me. 

I am not, in fact, alone. I never have been. 

If I have felt alone, it’s because I turned a blind eye to those who were with me. 

I’m ready to turn around now, I ready to accept the help I’m already receiving and to ask for more help when I need it. 

I am ready to let others help carry my burden.