BEARERS OF BURDENS

My Brother, how are you at helping others bear burdens?
Are you conveniently absent when your Lodge has work or cleanup days?
Do you sit on the sidelines in contented indolence while a very few are setting up and taking down props, costumes, or scenery for the degrees?
Do you let someone else clean up the kitchen and dining room after a meal or refreshments?
Do you let others visit the sick and bereaved, help the poor and needy, and perform duties which, as a Mason, you know that you also are bound to do?
In short, are you a drone in the Masonic hive--giving of your dues but little else to further the program of Masonry?
Are you bearing your fair share of the load or just shoving it off onto the backs of your Brethren?
THINK ABOUT IT!!

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