On the shoulders or from the neck... the cross we bear! Superb stuff for meditation. The cross is an earthbound thing and death the release that ensures that parting. The balancing act is more important than we can fully grasp but its there and distinct enough to make an approach. Many thanks Andrew this opens a door and opens an avenue of thought. Cheers.
i went in a couple directions with this one...
I like the reference to the wedding vows.
Married to those burdens we bear...and they will remain until...well, until....
j.
Strindberg said.
" When I come home and sit at my writing table, then I live.... I live, and I live in manifold fashion of all human beings. I depict; I am glad with the glad, wicked with the wicked,.. more..