“You work on your side of the street… and I’ll tend to mine.” I say it often in more than one of my family relationships.

It’s a way of shaking loose from old patterns of enmeshment.  I have learned if I don’t guard my time, energy, and peace, no one else will either.

Bear one another’s burdens—that’s support, kindness, empathy, safety…that’s showing up, being there.

And we don’t have to do any of it alone, when those burdens and loads become too much to bear…we have One to call upon who promises to do the heavy lifting.

Faith, hope and love,

Annie