Day27 Month 2 - Lay your burdens down

I know that sometimes what I believe can seem a little dodgy and mixed up, but there is something I gain from going to a Christian church and being active within that church. As you may well know for over two months I have been suffering from recurring bronchitis. Essentially I have had pneumonia. I saw a new doctor and after two weeks of "rest" and antibiotics, the lung is now finally clear. I feel better than I have felt in a very long time and am actually looking forward to going back to work tomorrow because I know that I will cope with a bunch of 9 year olds better than I have for a while. Anyway, todays message was about our worries, the burdens we carry. In my writing I refer to this as baggage.
Last night I had trouble sleeping and often when I can't sleep I remember all those people who have (to my mind) done me wrong, I lay awake for the thousandth time wondering what I would do if I ever got revenge. It's silly because I am the one loosing sleep, not them. So lo and behold I am stunned that the message in church today is aimed directly at me (not for the first time mind you).
Lay your burdens down, release them to me and rest. Rest and release my worries, this was the message I got from my doctor, I listened and I am cured. Surely then by the very virtue of my faith I should listen to God and lay my burdens down, if my Dr. can make me feel this good in two weeks and she a mere mortal, imagine how fabulous I can feel and what I can accomplish in releasing my burdens to our Creator.
Today's message was also very intimate based on the fact that our minister is swapping places with a minister from Christchurch, he said that he has been asked if he if afraid to go given the recent earthquakes, his answer he said was no, because he believes that he is going to be exactly where God needs him to be and perhaps it is an opportunity for that minister to come to us and rest. Lay his burdens down, put their worries and fears into the hands of Jesus, I guess that with all my searching it is this kind of faith that I am looking for. I want to be able to believe so wholeheartedly in something that I can lay my burdens down and rest knowing that I am safe secure in the hands of our Creator.

In light and love.