Jul 01 2009
Ep15-Amazing!
“Amazing!” I said that word so many times in this episode that it had to be the title.
Join me as I travel to Groom Texas. I was privileged to see the Cross Ministries largest cross in the western hemisphere. The Cross Ministries campus is home to life size Stations of the Cross, Golgotha, the tomb with the stone rolled out of the way, an exact replica of the Shroud of Turin, and so much more.
I put together a video of the whole experience. I have a Standard def and a HD version. I hope you like it.
One Response to “Ep15-Amazing!”
You’re right, J.R., it was amazing!
Standing at the foot of the cross, craning my neck to look up… and up… and up… the sun cresting just above the tip of the cross so high above my head – I found my eyes tearing behind my sunglasses. At first I thought it was just the brightness of the sun – but soon realized that it was actually tears of grace. I’d been struggling with despair and a lack of faith. I couldn’t hear God’s word speaking to me. I couldn’t see God working in my life. I couldn’t feel God’s grace cradling me day to day. I couldn’t understand how God could expect me to keep struggling with being a single mom of a “differently-abled” son, and work, and evangelize, and pay the bills, and do the house work, and… and… and… and… I was just so tired and getting more so the older I get. I couldn’t see an end to the struggle and the strain of trying to make everything work in the secular world.
God understands I’m a Doubting Thomas – I’m too practical to learn without seeing for myself. He’s shown me before, in His infinite patience and love, that He truly loves me and has a plan for me. I’d forgotten that. So He gave me the gift and the grace and the call to come to the foot of this amazing cross. To drive me to my knees in front of this amazing sign – so that I could physically see how immense, how incredibly huge His love is. He gave His only son to die for my sins. He didn’t punish me for them, He gave His son for them! To take them to the cross and die! He took my sins and buried them. Even more – He raised His son from the dead, so that I might know that I have eternal life. The immensity of that love – the incredible strength and compassion and joy of that act is as huge in His plan as the cross in Groom Texas is to me. He built this cross so I might kneel at the foot of it and know He loves me more than I can imagine – in a greater dimension than the largest freestanding cross in the Western Hemisphere.
He built it for me.
Peace!