Taking Up the Cross Again
He wants us to use the bad to create more good. He wants us to pick up the crosses we have to bear and TAKE THEM WITH US while we follow Him.
He wants us to use the bad to create more good. He wants us to pick up the crosses we have to bear and TAKE THEM WITH US while we follow Him.
Absolutely anywhere and in any era we have endeavored to present Jesus to the world, we have been killed for it. It is the stuff of historical record and the seedbed of the Church.
Six moves and many years later that crucifix still hangs in a prominent place in our home, as it has since its arrival from Santa Fe.
Finding the perfect Crucifix was the next step to inviting Jesus into our home.
Carrying our crosses. I haven’t been carrying mine very well. Unless whining, stomping feet, crying, and turning my head away from them is the epitome of “very well.” No? You sure?
What if I held the inconvenient cross Jesus offered me instead of stubbornly carving the cross I want?
We stood before this outdoor crucifix talking and praying, and it was at this spot that he asked me to marry him.
He was declining rapidly in health, mind and body. I planned to pick him up for a morning of errands and appointments. I saw his final cross tightly fastened to him as he shuffled from his house to my car with his off white shirt tucked into his dress pants. He wasn’t fit to drive … Read more