😎🐫🎤 Christ’s peace and presence be with you. While praying the Rosary last Friday and meditating on the fourth Sorrowful mystery, Jesus carrying the cross, I was drawn to the thought of Simon of Cyrene carrying the cross with Christ. What an inconvenience that must have been. I imagine that was probably the last thing he expected would happen to him that day. Do you think they spoke? Was Simon complaining? What do you think Christ, in His weakest hour, would have said to Simon? How do you think Simon walked away from that experience with Christ?
You and I are called every day to carry Christ’s cross with Him. Notice I didn’t say for Him. At times, we feel burdened by the weight of the world. It can be a physical or mental burden causing you to fall on your hands and knees. If Christ wasn’t there carrying that cross with you, you would have been pressed flat on the ground.
Matthew tells us of Jesus in Chapter 11: 28-30 saying, “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Notice Jesus is saying, come to Me and put this weight, this yoke upon your shoulders so I can share it with you. He didn’t say, I’m going to take everything away. You shouldn’t expect that. But what He is saying is, you will have trouble, you will have burdens, but you will also have Me.
He will never ask you to do something that He isn’t willing to do or has already done himself. If you trust in what He is calling you to do, and act upon them, you will never regret your actions. From the Allen Hunt and Matthew Kelly book, No Regrets, “Death is inevitable. Regrets are optional. It’s time to live the rest of your life with no regrets.”
Bless others and be blessed.
Shelly :0)
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