4th week of Lent, Tuesday –Burn some of last weeks’ grass in your candle…carefully. Watch the change. A fire destroys, while some say purifies. Both ways, for a human in this process, pain is involved. Much pain enters our lives, as a matter of course. Pain must be left to be pain. However, we don’t cling to or wallow in our pain. First we enter in, live in the pain, and breathe from inside the pain. Then we ultimately let go of pain. All creatures suffer – not only human ones. That means we can all contribute to bearing one another’s burdens. Who helps bear your burdens? Whose burdens do you bear?