The Cross  (Written in 1982 concerning the Dream I had some years earlier)
I woke up and realised it was a dream; and no ordinary dream it was.
A 'Huge Cross' stood reaching into the heavens, around it a huge crowd, each person  carrying  a tiny cross.
A light shone from the heavens, and a I heard a voice: "Lift up your tiny cross to the Huge Cross".
No one in the crowd stirred, everyone stood still, each deep in thought.
With a smile and a giggle, I try to lift up my tiny cross and saw that it was heavy and made of silver.
For years I pondered about the dream that is much alive in my heart....As the Lord gives  me insight, layers of fear are being dealt with. But now it suffices to know that:
The 'Huge Cross' is the cross of Christ on Calvary,
It was there that the Lamb paid the Price; .....a heavy Price by a Perfect Sacrifice.
But it was not an easy ordeal; ....He suffered shame and humiliation;....He was mocked and scourged..........
Pain, horror, anguish which cannot be described by ordinary words. ..The more I think of it, the more I feel His pain;
In anguish, He cried to His Father.... It was not a cry of defeat........
Rather, it was a cry of Victory! ...His cry rings out into the Heavens!...... it rings down into the earth below....
Graves opened, and death was conquered..... Victory!....Victory!....Victory!  There is life beyond the Cross!
As I stand beneath the Cross......God's love is real; I have been saved only through the Cross of Jesus;
For God so loved humanity /me, that He gave His Son to give me life through His death on the Cross
Hail ! All Hail the Risen Christ !; Hail Him who has overcome death !, Hail Him in His New Glorified Body!
Glory to the Father, who is faithful in all His promises,..... even to raising His Son Jesus from Death !
Glory and Honour to the Healing cross !

After 45 years,  the dream is still alive in my heart. I relive it often especially at this time of the Liturgical Season - Lent, ...Holy Week....... and today - Holy Saturday -  being the last day of Lent, it's good to spend some time  meditaing on the Cross by which we have been redeemed.  How central is the Cross in my life? Am I able to unite my tiny cross to that of Jesus?......try it.... It can be a daily struggle, each time you do this .... But this is the Master's call: :  Come to me, come just as you are, come and learn from Me...... humillity is not a sign of defeat.. for Jesus was humbler yet........dying on the Cross.... for you and me.......