On 5th Avenue in New York City you can see two statues.
One is at Rockefeller Center. It is a gigantic statue of Atlas, straining to hold the world on his shoulders. He is the most powerfully built man in the world and can barely stand under this burden. You can live that way, trying to carry the world on your shoulders.
Across the street from Rockefeller Center is Saint Patrick’s Cathedral with a shrine of the boy Jesus, perhaps 8 or 9 years old, with no effort holding the world in one hand.
We can carry the world on our shoulders, or we can say, “I give up, Lord; here’s my life. I give you my world, the whole world.”