There is a burden that actually takes the weight off, a yoke that liberates. Augustine invites his parishioners to consider giving themselves over to one who gave himself for them, the Christ who assures them, “My yoke is kindly and my burden light” (Matt. 11:30). “Every other burden oppresses you and feels heavy, but Christ’s burden lifts you up; any other burden is a crushing weight, but Christ’s burden has wings.”33 Not only can you make it home; you can fly.
