The Burden Is Light: Liberating Your Life from the Tyranny of Performance and Success

If you train your ears and still your heart, you will hear the voice of the Master directing your life. “Hep!” Let go, and surrender to his loving embrace.

My story is not a neutral one but a contested one. It reveals the conflict between the tyranny of the world and the wonder of God’s grace.

Your call is to cast the gospel into the darkness of this world. Instead of catching fish, you will be caught up in a story of love and redemption and grace. Feed my sheep with the good news of grace. Embrace your call as a shepherd.”

His key insight was that in order to be caught safely, the people being caught must be completely still. They must surrender control, placing total trust in the catcher’s ability.

There is a danger that you will mislive—that despite all your activity, despite all the pleasant diversions you might have enjoyed while alive, you will end up living a bad life.

We have a fear of being left out, a fear of failure, a fear of rejection, a fear that our children will forget about us when they leave home, a fear that loved ones will leave us, that our spouses will lose interest, that our beauty will fade, that our jobs will be automated, that our food will cause cancer, that our president will spark an interna

We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each one of us is called to a special place in the Kingdom. If we find that place we will be happy. If we do not find it, we can never be completely happy.

He chose us before the foundation of the world, determined the time in history that we should live, placed us in our circumstances, and is working out his will in our lives.

The Father’s approval gave Jesus the security to avoid an addiction to success and scandalously give his life away in love.