Feeling Cross

What does this symbol

Mean to you?

Do you know its 

Many origin stories?

There is rarely only one—

Especially when it’s about a famous white guy.

We use our religious symbols to

Stand for something else,

Assuming we all understand that 

It stands for the same thing.

Does it?

Does it mean the same to me as it does to you?

Does it mean the same to early pagans

As it does to 21st century Christians?

What about the ancient crosses from Africa,

India, Asia, and Indigenous Americas?

How can the same symbol, which has offered

Faith to some and genocide to others

Stand for 

Only one thing?

Maybe together we are 

Feeling cross?

What has brought this symbol to such power

That it has meaning for so many?

Is there a point at which enough

People focus their energy on it,

That the symbol suddenly takes on a 

Life of its own?

Would it become something more 

Than just a reflection to us?

Would it leave behind

It’s humble beginnings?

And gain power

Or influence?

Could it become sentient,

Aware of its uniqueness and impact?

Or maybe it started out

Sentient from the start?

Patiently influencing billions of minds

Over millennia.

Gently setting its influence one

Unconscious feeling at a time.

Until a critical mass of understanding

Is met—and the symbol makes full impact.

Whew! 

This one is a lot.

Hope you are enjoying the spring rain.

And enjoy your celebrations.