Every pastor I know carries someone or something on his heart. There is always a weight pulling on them as they make their way through a week. Carrying this weight will kill you, but that is the price you pay as a pastor. You sacrifice your life in bits and pieces, hopefully knowing that you may help to increase someone elses life. You rarely begrudge this sacrifice, allthough you have your moments.

Paul must have sacrificed more than any of us. With the care of all the churches and all the people of those churches, he must have struggled at times to keep his head up. Long life was not his pursuit, at least not his own long life. He pursued a full life. A life enriched by the hugs and smiles, sermons and prayers that were shared from church to church, family to family.

In Corinth, he must have had an extra pound or two on his heart. Along with the Galatian church, I think these two groups threatened to undo Paul. They might have taken him under had it not been Paul's admission of weakness in 1 Corinthians 2. 

When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

I am not at all sure what his burden's were, but they probably had names. Most of our burdens revolved around the souls and day to day living of other people. I am sure of one thing, Paul decided to focus on something bigger than his burdens. And that focus was his source for all his powerful testimony. That was how 'he turned over his burdens to Jesus who knows how to carry the world on his shoulders, you and me on his heart.