Winning Entry for 10/9, by cc.slim

Assignment: Choose a favorite story or novel, or use your own original story, and write a monologue prologue for it.



How many of you have burdens!? I do! But just the other day I thought I gave all mine to Jesus Christ!The word “burden” was spoken in a conversation and it caught my interest. A quick glace at myself was to say nope no “burden” here!But could I have missed something?So I looked at this word “burden” to be sure that Jesus had all that I could give him.I looked in the bible; I looked in the dictionary. In both books the word “burden” is defined to be a heavy or unmanageable load. So I had to dig higher for a burden that is above the responsibility of being a Christian.One word stood out that could cause a burden. So I studied that one word and I found astonishing results! In the bible this word’s meaning has already doubled its adversary! In the dictionary this one word that could cause a “burden” quadruples its opposite.How can this single most powerful word ever be a “burden”?How can the greatest gift ever to be given be my “burden”?I asked and I received.I give and I will be given.Ah Ha, Love can be a” burden”!When a Christian does not live up to their responsibilities to give Love, Love thenBecomes a “burden”! All the power and might of Love is stuck inside of you, waiting to be given and you don’t give.So here I am, full to the top like a tall drink of water and the only time I lose any of this water is when I am sloshing here or sloshing there but never really giving out plentiful refreshment wherever I go.So I stand before you as “A Messenger with a Burden of Love”.