Ever have one of those days?

The mortgage payment is due. The car is making an ominous, expensive-sounding noise. The kids are suddenly having trouble in school, with friends, and with faith. Deadlines from work are stacking up and toppling over. Your spouse needs some extra care and attention.

Then you know what it is to feel as though the weight of the world is on your shoulders.

Anyone remember where that saying "the weight of the world" comes from? Recall some long-ago learned mythology and remember the image of the great Atlas--his shoulders and arms bulging with muscles, legs slightly bent and apart to help him balance, head and neck crooked forward, so that the planet earth rested squarely upon his massive shoulders. This Atlas was the guy who, after getting on Zeus' bad side, wa…