Are you a lifter or leaner?

Lifting and Leaning

There are two kinds of people on earth today, 

Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.

Not the good and the bad, for ’tis well understood

The good are half bad and the bad are half good.

Not the happy and sad, for the swift-flying years

Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.

Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man’s wealth

You must first know the state of his conscience and health.

Not the humble and proud, for in life’s busy span

Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man.

Wherever you go you will find the world’s masses

And ever divided in just these two classes.

And, strangely enough, you will find, too, I ween,

There is only one lifter to twenty who lean.

In which class are you?  Are you easing the load

Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?

Or are you a leaner who lets others bear

Your portion of worry and labor and care?

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Galatians 6:2-10

Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. 
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, 
he deceives himself. 
But each one must examine his own work, 
and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, 
and not in regard to another.
 For each one will bear his own load.


The one who is taught the word
 is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. 
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; 
for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 
For the one who sows to his own flesh
 will from the flesh reap corruption, 
but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. 

Let us not lose heart in doing good, 
for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. 
So then, while we have opportunity, 
let us do good to all people, 
and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
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