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AT THE CROSS!
I had just finished an after-dinner address at a convention of medical doctors. Several were coming by, introducing themselves, and spending a few moments in general conversation.
One elderly physician approached with some difficulty, holding the arm of a younger doctor with one hand and gripping tightly onto his walking cane. His smile required his entire face to express itself.
We talked a few moments about a point or two I made during the address. It was then that I spotted a beautiful gold cross, rather large, dangling on the end of a long chain, presenting itself prominently on his chest.
"I see you have the cross, doctor,” I said, smiling and gently touching it.
“Yes,” he said. “And everything that goes with it," and he limped on his way, still smiling that big smile.
My eyes followed him through the crowd, as if transfixed. I thought: his “cross" is not his burden; not his limp; not his aging infirmity. No. His “cross" is in his face—his smile—not in his limp.
And that's where the CROSS always ends up: on our faces, expressing “everything that goes with it."
The old hymn is right: “At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light...."
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