How interruptions can expose our self-reliance and become occasions to live from Christ within.
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The cross usually arrives disguised. It rarely announces itself as some great spiritual experience. It comes as an interruption. Someone misunderstands me. My plans change. I am criticized. Something I wanted remains unfinished. Suddenly I feel that familiar demand rising within me: this must go my way. That moment reveals something. I am still trying to be the source. The cross does not ask me to become miserable or search for suffering. It simply touches the place where I insist upon possessing, controlling, defending, or producing life from myself. Christ is already my life, even in that moment of resistance. As I release my demand, His life finds expression where I have insisted on supplying everything. His patience where mine ended. His peace where I wanted control. His freedom where I was holding tightly. The cross makes room for resurrection. And resurrection is Christ living where I finally stopped trying to be the source.
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