He is hanging on a cross of wood, his head down, his chin upon his chest, a crown of thorns cutting into his forehead, On the horizontal wood, one nail is driven in to his right hand, one into his left, through the palms, facing them out. His shoulders are slumped in his weakened physical state, his chest sunken, his back pressed against the vertical wood. A single nail is driven all the way through both feet together attaching them to the vertical wood.
Two men on their own crosses of wood, one to each side, accompany him, heads bowed down onto their chests like his and turning toward him, say to him, ‘What have you done to deserve your punishment?’ ‘We have committed crimes but you have done no real thing against the law’. ‘Why did they judge you to go through this?’
He did not answer but he said to them and to all of us, I am here as a sacrifice. I will be justified for my pain and pleased with my sacrifice if you do one thing for me.
And he said and we know and we know we keep needing to try to lift the shadow of his suffering and to lighten his load and ours. That to bring peace and happiness and restore life to this man, slumped, nailed onto a wood cross between two souls who had been lost, he tells us, ‘Be ye more perfect as I am’. ‘Do the things I showed you in the life I gave you to see during my time here, which is written in books but also is engraved in your hearts to remember me, and that it is true. Mankind does not live by bread alone.’
They must strengthen their spirit and bring low their desires. They must try to follow my example and to do the things I did and showed them.
‘Your striving so will gladden the hearts within each of you and lift up my countenance toward heaven within you from this figurative cross which exists in each one of your hearts. This will gladden me to in turn help you more willingly. For exists in each and every heart of yours, the same, the wheel of the human cross and I upon it in each of you. Do this for me to make my sacrifice worthwhile.’
‘Rise! And shine! And bring glory to yourselves. Raise yourselves up. Do this and bring light to this world, your very world, and love will begin to fill it and peace will start to reign. Our sun will shine so brightly and all our work will encompass precious value. It is simply ours to choose!’ ‘Amen to you all.’
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