Letting Go, Letting God

2018년 9월 15일

We cannot escape the cross in our life. Our only option is to decide what role the cross will play in our lives. We can carry our own cross; help others carry theirs; place a cross on other’s shoulders; or stand at the foot of the cross as we watch those we love suffer. None of these is pleasant. But if we join our cross to that of Christ, we can transform the cross from being a source of suffering and death to one of love and new life.

Consider the caterpillar. It’s life consists of eating and sleeping. But when the time is right, it must die to its old caterpillar way of life to become something beautiful and new. It spins a cocoon and “dies”. What emerges is at once the same thing but entirely different. A butterfly does not resemble the caterpillar it came from. Yet they are the same life. Clearly God is giving us a sign from the natural world that death is not the end and that something wonderful awaits us on the other side of our tomb-like cocoons.

If we want to be a true follower of Jesus, we must also pick up our cross, that is, the opposition, ridicule and rejection of the world for proclaiming God’s justice, mercy and love. We must die to ourselves. Everyday. As Catholics, we not only make the sign of the cross, but everything we say and do should be the sign of the cross

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