What is your Cross?

This is excellent…

“This is what Jesus is pointing to when he calls us to take up our cross. Our cross is not the cantankerous person we have to deal with day by day. Our cross is not the employer we just can’t get along with. Our cross is not that neighbor or work colleague who cuts across the grain in every single time of relationship. Nor is our cross the difficulties and infirmities that the flow of life brings to us beyond our control. Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to be raised by God into wholeness of life in the image of Christ right there at that point. So the process of being conformed to the image of Christ takes place at the points of our unlikeness to Christ, and the first step is confrontation.”

Robert Mulholland, Jr. in Invitation to a Journey

  • http://www.facebook.com/steve.martin.10485 Steve Martin

    Very good!

    I have too many crosses to mention. Too many places in my life where I need to die (but stubbornly refuse to do so).

    I do like the idea that St. Paul has in Romans 6. About being put to death in our Baptisms. That is about the only way it is going to happen, for me anyway.

    Thanks.

    – theoldadam.com/

  • Andrew Dittman

    More than just a good reminder. Thanks Brother.