RELICS OF THE TRUE CROSS
I’ve often heard the cynical comment
that if all the relics of the true cross
around the world were glued together,
we would have a forest. Not true.
I say that because I also heard that
someone measured how many tiny
splinters of wood we could get
from a wooden cross – and we could
get enough splinters for all the churches
around the world. Interesting comment.
Now for the interesting numbers.
Could we measure how many people
have relics of the true cross in their
mind and heart, soul and spirit?
There’s that crushing comment a
parent or priest or school principal
made at us 26 years ago – or that
that time we were nailed to a cross
of a family problem – taking care
of a parent when all our brothers
and sisters disappeared – or a family
situation when nobody would talk to us.
Talk about relics of the true cross!
© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2015
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