Maybe he has just bent down and picked it up from the place where we dropped it. He dusts off that huge burdensome world and his outstretched hand gives it back to us to start again. He makes us stronger and the burden lighter. In the end, that is what Jesus Christ always does. He gives us back our world and he does it again and again and again.
True gratitude is the conversion of gift into gift.
So, we give thanks to God for the gifts we have been given by showing forth his light in the world in our lives. My prayer is that we will offer thanksgiving- not only with our lips but in our lives by giving up our selves to God's service.