Cross..........

My Thought for this Day........We all are in a huge dither over monuments and symbols and erasing that which has gone before. It's as if allowing vileness and cruelty to be acknowledged as a part of our past is the key to the same measure appearing in our futures. And so we are taking down and defacing that which offends anyone over anything. As I have stated previously, slavery and racism and senseless acts of terrorism of people against people are all an abomination. Yet to try and erase the painful events from our history discredits those who fought for right, those who died for justice, those who left heart and soul on a battlefield of horror. So my Thought then veers to this........2,017 years ago there was another symbol that in our selfish daily life of righting wrongs, we seem to have forgotten, passed over, given no heed. We do it daily, without guilt, nor shame. And I wonder, no I know, had we, and if we, stop and kneel at the foot of the most monumental reminder of our past, we, in our humbleness and recognition of this act of cruelty and repugnance will rise strong, and without thought nor effort, be changed. The Cross. Although we can not remove it physically, we, as a nation, have removed it emotionally. We have in our fight for justice forgotten the one who voluntarily held the world, and holds our future in His nail scarred hands. He hung on a cross so we, in our sin, could be forgiven. And so in our current acts of rebellion, we blindly walk past the Cross to enter into the fight of violence. I'm in no way trying to dehumanize the persecution of days gone by; they happened, as did the Cross. Bow down and recognize it's meaning and power. This symbol has been forgotten, and we are blindly paying that price daily in our race to be the best, have the best, and seek revenge. May the Cross have mercy on our souls.