How to Fly
Commenting on Christ’s words “My yoke is easy and my burden
light,” St. Augustine said:
“Any other burden oppresses and crushes you, but Christ’s
actually takes weight off you. Any other burden weighs you down, but Christ’s
gives you wings.
If you take a bird’s wings away, you might seem to be taking
weight off it. But the more weight you take off, the more you tie it down to
the earth. There it is on the ground, and you wanted to relieve it of a weight.
Give it back the weight of its wings and you will see how it
flies.”
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