Pick Up Your Cross

This is only part of the journey, 

    and not the whole long way. 

It seems to me that my “cross” 

    is each particular occasion when 

I’m given the chance to “die” – 

    that is, to offer up my own will

        whenever it crosses Christ’s.

The call still comes to us: 

Take up your cross 

    and come with Me. 

          With you, Lord?

Yes, with Me.

          Will You give me strength

                and show me the way? 

That was My promise – 

    is it My custom

        to break promises?

                                     - Elisabeth Elliot