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What do you believe?
and what were you taught?
on pickup your cross and follow me?
and what were you taught?
on pickup your cross and follow me?
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What do you believe and what were you taught on pickup your cross and follow me
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StephieNorthCo
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St. Paul asked a few times to have a “cross” removed, and consistently got the answer “My grace is sufficient for you”.
A cross is one of those nagging things that you struggle with. Leads to envy and other things if you let it (why did xxxxxxxxx have to happen to me?). Yet, we are instructed to carry, bear, or otherwise deal with that cross and follow Christ.
It is a burden put on us to keep us “honest”, that is, following Christ rather than ourselves.
What is a cross to one person may not affect another person to the same degree or even at all. We each have our own crosses unique to us.
Sometimes we overcome these burdens, finding in the end we are closer to Christ, a better person, and the cross isn’t there any more.
Sometimes they come and go.
Some struggles are lifelong.
My observation is that universally, these crosses tend to help us focus away from ME ME ME, and more towards our Loving Lord.
Blessings,
Stephie
A cross is one of those nagging things that you struggle with. Leads to envy and other things if you let it (why did xxxxxxxxx have to happen to me?). Yet, we are instructed to carry, bear, or otherwise deal with that cross and follow Christ.
It is a burden put on us to keep us “honest”, that is, following Christ rather than ourselves.
What is a cross to one person may not affect another person to the same degree or even at all. We each have our own crosses unique to us.
Sometimes we overcome these burdens, finding in the end we are closer to Christ, a better person, and the cross isn’t there any more.
Sometimes they come and go.
Some struggles are lifelong.
My observation is that universally, these crosses tend to help us focus away from ME ME ME, and more towards our Loving Lord.
Blessings,
Stephie
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Genesis315
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Basically that we need to follow Jesus through the narrow gate, even if it is hard and that we should bear the sufferings we must endure in this life as Christ did.
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Trishie
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A Capuchin priest used to call the daily struggles of our daily difficulties and responsibilities in living good Catholic lives, ‘the gray martyrdom’.
Humble though our daily lives, in these lived in love of God and in quiet, faithful love of others, regardless of how we feel, is surely taking up our cross in union with Jesus.
It is of great significance in this regard, that God did not become incarnate as a glorious, adult, human personage,
but as a little child, who lived and grew in a life that is barely mentioned in the gospels…with all the ‘ordinary’ challenges of humanity.
“He fully divine and fully human” genuinely lived those first 30 years, in what Father John called, “the gray martyrdom”… of a life of goodness and love, lived in family union. In living thus, Jesus showed us the value of carrying our crosses in our ordinary daily lives
Humble though our daily lives, in these lived in love of God and in quiet, faithful love of others, regardless of how we feel, is surely taking up our cross in union with Jesus.
It is of great significance in this regard, that God did not become incarnate as a glorious, adult, human personage,
but as a little child, who lived and grew in a life that is barely mentioned in the gospels…with all the ‘ordinary’ challenges of humanity.
“He fully divine and fully human” genuinely lived those first 30 years, in what Father John called, “the gray martyrdom”… of a life of goodness and love, lived in family union. In living thus, Jesus showed us the value of carrying our crosses in our ordinary daily lives
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