When I heard this dream I felt enormous emotional response. It is the story of a woman who has carried a burden that has, until the dream, brought her to her knees over and over again. Not only that she felt she had to be a man to bear such a burden.
But the dream shows her taking up that burden herself, and that was because she had grown enough strength to take the responsibility for it. And it looks as if it had taken her a long time to gain that strength. Dreams have shown me again and again that such heavy burdens or trials that we face are in fact a gift, and a gift that gives us the opportunity to gain the ability to overcome whatever had pushed us low.
As the woman says, she now has the strength to not only carry the heavy load, but to run with it to the goal.
And the goal is a new life, forged out of all the lessons she has learned in a long life.
What a spirit she has.
Tony