“Never heard of an object that can smile and remain at once a symbol of hope, grief, life and death.”

Yes, I should have also mentioned the cross being a symbol of dying to one’s selfish ways. I was reminded again by my dear friend that we can most effectively serve others by placing ourselves “on the cross” daily, surrendering our desires and egos for the sake of another. In doing so, aren’t we in service to all beings everywhere.

Yet the controversial Piss Christ was banned, cutting too close to the quick as an expression of the pathos that the cross is.

Oh what cross-purposes we work at in our expressions of the significance of the cross!

“And vomiting is what I want to do when I see some of the ways Jesus is being portrayed today.”

I hear ya, Tim. It is sad. The cross, for me, is not a symbol of suffering (or smiley faces) but of hope. I am surrendering myself to the center-point of the cross and resting here while God works on me for a spell.

I feel a deep need to rest here in the intersection, the cosmic axis where two become one, and let this symbol remind me (as Trevor reminded me today) that it is here I can best serve others. Coming to the cross and using it as a reminder to serve others, placing myself in the center, but as second, gives me comfort, peace and the will to serve those I love to the fullest.

Thanks for this post, Tim. Bless you!

Anyway he can not stand christian bookstores…and has a few word of his own about the book stores…but it was his birthday so we knew exactly what to do.

We got him a zebra wrist band with a cross on it…a mood ring…and another trinket I can not even remember…but what was precious was the look on his face when we presented it too him…

I will say we took it all back because we did not want him to remember us by those trinkets or for him to use them in future teaching moments….

GO MOOD RINGS