While shopping for pots recently when the roses arrived, I couldn't resist buying a watering can. It definitely brought back fond childhood memories of holidays with my grandmother in Margate and running round watering her plants and chattering about fairies.
It's amazing to me how easily and powerfully positive memories can override any bad ones, thus very easily facilitating an emotional healing process. Once again it is an example of a symbol that we can identify with in order to effect forgiveness and healing.
Maybe that is why Christ had to hang on a cross and not killed in some other way. The cross being a powerful symbol of our reconciliation with God by bridging the gap between God and mankind. The cross also being raised off the ground, lifting our eyes from earth towards heaven.
Maybe that's what Paul meant when he said, "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith." Where are your eyes focused today?
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