Dear Mama Friend: Trouble Me

I spent my teenagerhood and college years in the 1990s, and one of my favorite 90s songs is Trouble Me by the 10,000 Maniacs. (Seriously, Mamas, if you don’t know it, go look it up on iTunes or Amazon Music or YouTube. DO IT.) The opening lyrics go like this:

Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and you worries.
Trouble me on the days when you feel spent.
Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong?
Trouble me.

Clearly it’s not a faith-based song (if you know the 10,000 Maniacs they tell some amazing folk tales though!) but it has always reminded me of the scripture “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2).”


Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapson
Jenny is a follower of Christ, a wife and mom of three from Ohio and a freelance writer and editor.

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