A HEAVY load is rather trying but when done with cheerfulness and pleasure, it seems to be lightened considerably. We see that difference in the boy and the girl as they come from the orchard carrying their dear little sister in the basket along with the apples.
The boy is evidently not so very well pleased about his burden, but the girl is carrying it with good will, and the is making a pleasure out of it.
I suppose they both took tip little sister in the basket with good will,. but the boy got tired of his job very soon, and the burden was too much for him.
The Scripture says
It is good to start out with a happy heart in all that we have to do, and the only way to have a happy heart is first to have the Lord Jesus as our own Saviour, then we shall be free from the burden of our sins; and the many burdens of our life will become much lighter to us, and we shall be!able to do whatever we have to do with cheerfulness, and we shall be ready to do some act of kindness to someone.
“Only an act of kindness
That you, little child, may show,
While seeking to please the Saviour.
And more like Himself to grow.
Only a feeble effort
To lighten the heavy load
Of some weary, way worn trav’ler,
While wending his toil-some road.”
Messages of God’s Love 7/3/1921