"Lean Hard"

For so many dear ones bearing difficult burdens, this poem:

Child of My love, lean hard,

And let Me feel the pressure of thy care;

I know thy burden, child, I shaped it;

Poised it in My own hand, made no proportion in its weight to thine unaided strength;

For even as I laid it on, I said,

"I shall be near, and while he leans on Me,

This burden shall be Mine, not his;"

So shall I keep My child within the circling arms of My own love.

Here lay it down, nor fear to impose it on a shoulder which upholds the government of worlds.

Yet closer come; thou art not near enough;

I would embrace thy care so I might feel My child reposing on My breast.

Thou lovest Me? I know it. Doubt not then;

But, loving Me, Lean Hard.      
---May Prentiss Smith

~~~"Cast your burden on the LORD, and He will sustain you..."  Psalm 55:22~~~