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January 7, 2016 at 6:59 pm #172

jacob45

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I wonder if taking up one´s cross was a common saying in Jesus´ days. Or was it added after the crucifixion, as the gospels date from several decades later. But the intention of Christ´s words is clear, “self-renunciation of all that constitutes a so-called material man.” The yielding of mortal mind to the divine Mind, of this sense of false selfhood to our real, eternal identity. Sometimes it seems more than I can handle!