{"id":832,"date":"2006-12-25T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/weights-we-bear-in-life.html"},"modified":"2006-12-25T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T19:29:00","slug":"weights-we-bear-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/weights-we-bear-in-life.html","title":{"rendered":"The Weights We Bear in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other afternoon, I was walking in Manhattan and the large handbag I carry everywhere suddenly felt incredibly heavy. Oh God, what was in there anyway? I’d been out all day. So I opened my bag and peered in. Aooohhh… scary. It’s pretty cluttered in there. So I started to dig and then to my amazement out came a fourteen-inch-long stainless steel gardening trowel<\/a> with a heavy handle that I’d purchased four full days earlier to do some digging in our back garden. It must weigh two pounds. <\/p>\n

Upon realizing this, I stopped in the middle of the city sidewalk, waved my trowel, and laughed outloud. <\/p>\n

Isn’t it amazing how quickly we take on new weight and accommodate to it? <\/p>\n

At least I noticed. I think there have been times in my life when I just would have just soldiered on.<\/p>\n

BEST OF CHATTERING MIND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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