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The Pulley
George Herbert
This poem starts out saying when God created man he poured on him a glass of blessings. He gave him strength, beauty, wisdom and pleasure. But, when the glass was almost empty at the bottom was rest. God held back rest because he knew someday man would tire of all the other blessings of life and come to him for rest. Therefore, when our burdens are heavy we can hoist them up to God like using a pulley to help us move or carry the load.
I believe all of us at sometime or another need rest from the heavy load and burdens of life. God is there to lighten our load and give us rest.
What a beautiful poem! I love how the author leaves out rest so we can return to God for our final place. I definitely will be reading this to my Bible study group.
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