June 02, 2025

The place of the cross in our life is the place of death and resurrection.

How many times are we asked to take our place on Golgotha
and die again?

Every time a "collision of duties comes along 
where obligation is pitted against obligation,
will against will" (Carl Jung),
where we are damned if we do and damned if we don't.
When that is the case, up on the cross we go
to be damned and be done with it,
bearing, again, the agony of the damned
and suffering consciously, willingly through it,
dying and rising again to die and rise again--
with a gleam in our eye
and a spring in our step.
Understanding and embracing what the deal is,
taking our place in the endless line from Calvary
to the empty tomb over and over 
throughout the time left for living (and dying).