16. The Choice

"He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, 'If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.'" Mark 8: 34

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After the Fall, no such thing

as no suffering

I live ... I ache

Take up the cross with my name on it

or be crushed under its weight.

After the Rise, no such thing

as no joy

I live ... I heal

Wander on a broken path toward love or

simply

follow You.