What does it mean to carry your cross?
Text: https://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Pentecost/CProp18_RCL.html Years ago, my preschool aged son got really mad at me. I don’t remember what the fight was about, but as I sent him into his room to cool off, he turned and shouted, “I hate you!” Then I heard him pacing around in his room, engaged in conversation with himself. He was saying something like, “I am so mad. I want to [whatever it was] and she won’t let me. I hate her.” Then I he said, “But she’s my mom. You can’t hate your mom.” He argued with himself for several minutes: “I hate her.” “But she’s my mom. You can’t hate your mom.” At last, he appeared in the doorway of my room and announced, “I don’t hate you.” And he got on with his day. It’s not just because I am a mom that I want to assure you that Jesus does not want you to hate your mom. It’s also as a student of the Bible, that I assure you that Je...
