What kind of yoke are you wearing today?

Not this kind you say!

Are you sure?

Indeed, we may not get up in the morning and fit ourselves into a wooden harness like the one you see here –although sometimes our clothing may feel like that if we’ve gained a few pounds, no?

But we all do bear a yoke.

We yoke ourselves to ideas, concepts, issues, material things, relationships, belief systems. Our yokes in a sense bear the markings of those identities that we are willing to take on as our own identity, the stories we adopt and adapt as our own stories.

We all live in a yoke. Our yoke is our way of thinking and our way of being and talking and walking in the world. We all yoke ourselves to someone or something! And that can be good or bad.

But for many of us, our yokes become more burde…