To Whom should I Thank for every Cross I Shoulder?

To Whom should I Thank for every Cross I shoulder?

If we bemoan ourselves for every discomfort or disappointment that seems to appear confronting the peaceful environment that was promised to us, what should any of us address these misfortunes?  

When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethseminee just hours before his crucifixion to whom could he ask why, or really?  (Mt 26: 36 - 41).  This question was the result of accepting his divine office to save the very creatures he ordained to live an eternal life free from sin.  One may suppose that God did not need to establish this method of humbling himself because his creatures failed to accept the option of eternal life in holiness.  But we would be wrong as to this supposition since before we were in our mothers’ wombs he knew us and the very weaknesses we would fall from grace so often.  

Each one has been given the path to allow us grace and mercy using the one gift of his love to reach on our own the answer of how to find this only answer to salvation.  It is called free will since that alone will be the desire to seek God’s Mercy through the grace that is ours with faith.  We can’t earn God’s forgiveness  or any semblance of mercy by ourselves, but by believing through our faith the grace of God becomes the impetus to allow the Passion of Christ to make sense because of the Incarnation of Christ which is the complete grace that God holds before us holiness and righteousness.  

Our justification comes from the grace of God.  Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.  (CCC 1996).

His Paschal mystery is a real event that occurred in our history,  but it is unique; all other historical events happen once, and then they pass away, swallowed up in the past.  The Paschal mystery of Christ, by contrast, cannot remain only in the past, because by his death he destroyed death, and all that Christ is  - all that he did and suffered for all men - participates in the divine eternity, and so transcends all times while being made present in the all.  The event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life.”  (CCC 1085 - in part).  

This is the factual truth that answers our question “to whom should I thank for my crosses?”  Christ is the ultimate Creator, Protector, and Redeemer and endured all in place of us in order that we would inherit eternal life; completely exonerated from the evil of sin.

Ralph B. Hathaway