Today as we remember Good Friday we think about the cross and the biggest blessing that God offered us, his son, who came to die for our redemption. Through his pain we get to live.
The great thing about this particular Jesus, at the LA cathedral, is that the architect purposefully made the cross low to the ground and accessible to the people. After service there is usually a line of people want to touch Jesus. It is moving to watch them lean against it, kneel by it, sob into it and embrace him in their pain in the most famous symbol of ultimate suffering.
Filed under: Photo Friday, Spiritual Formation
December 1, 2006 • 11:34 PM
Stillness… how often in life today do we stop and be still? Not often enough that’s for sure. I know I am so distracted by so many things. Yet it is only in the quiet that we can hear the still, small voice.
"Be still and know that I am God…" Ps. 46:10.
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November 23, 2006 • 11:40 PM
When Erika and I were in San Francisco for Jer’s wedding my Uncle Kev graciously loaned us his black Expedition to drive to Sonoma. Uncle Kev got this car with a lovely Jesus decal on the back.
Being the good Catholic that he is he thought it would be sacreligious to take it off. So now every time the Western sun filters through the back of his car Jesus reflects and dances on the dashboard. It’s kind of disconcerting to be driving down the freeway in the middle of a road rage fit and have Jesus all of the sudden show up.
When we arrived at the reception we stopped to take a picture with Jesus, when else would you get the chance?
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