"Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian one must take up his cross, with all its difficulties and agonizing and tension-packed content and carry it until that very cross leaves its mark upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering".
Martin Luther King from A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings.
During the Lenten season this year, I'll be presenting the contemplative series, A Cross to Bear, with texts from theologians and spiritual writers and images from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection. (John Kohan)