Taking up your cross

This was originally sent to us via email.. but it seems so fitting for this week:

We complain about the cross we bear but don’t realize it is preparing us for the dip in the road that God can see and we cannot.

Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, "God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you." He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to exchange his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay all according to his conduct."

So, along those lines.. a few videos to enjoy and ponder: