How do we bear someone’s burdens? Bearing someone’s burdens can be taking a meal to a sick person, or driving them to the doctor, or something as simple as praying for that person. Prayer is so powerful and it is often the best thing we can do for someone who has a burden too heavy to bear alone. When we bear the burdens of our friends, we have to use discernment because even though we bear their burdens, we don’t take them from them.