What is your cross? It’s your most difficult problem, scaring you so that you are tempted to believe that peace can be had by running from it. Perhaps it is your relationship with your spouse, maybe it is a chronic physical or emotional problem, or an addiction to gambling or pornography that plays you like a violin. Whatever it is, Jesus invites you to name it … and, with his help, to shoulder it as he did his. Why? Because that’s the cost of living. Besides … it’s where Jesus can be found in your life. Embrace your cross, and you get him at no extra cost.
This is from a recent homily explaining that we grow not so much from addition, but from subtraction, making less of ourselves.
