My daily cross

Many years ago, my wife gave me this cross as a birthday gift.

Every night, before I turned in, I took off my cross and placed it on my bureau.  Every morning, I put it back on.  It was my routine and I did not think about it at all.  When I broke my shoulder earlier this year, I could not do that simple action, so I made a choice.  I left it on for 5 weeks.

Now that the shoulder is healed, I had to make another choice.  I went back to my old ways.  There is great symbolism in my old ways.

Each night, I take off my cross and turn my cross over to God.  As my mother used to say, "He'll be up all night watching anyway."

Each morning, I pick up my cross again and move forward with my day.