A story for every day...
The different crosses.
A poor traveler, overwhelmed by misery and discontent with his fate, was approaching a city at nightfall where he found a place to stay for the night. Having fallen asleep he had a dream in which he saw himself in a huge room all filled with crosses of the most varied shapes, and at the same time he heard a voice saying to him, “Choose the one that suits you.” The traveler lifted different crosses, weighed them and reweighed them, without finding one that suited him. Sometimes he found them too long, sometimes too heavy, others had sharp angles. Finally he saw crosses that sparkled like gold, but their weight was also that of gold. After much trial and error he found a cross that seemed to be in proportion and that suited him better than the others. So he fixed his choice on it. Looking at it more closely he found that it was the same cross he had been wearing until then. At that moment he woke up and recognized that God had wanted to comfort him with this dream, and from then on he never complained about his sufferings.
Let us be convinced of the truth of these words of St. Paul: “God will not allow you to be tempted above your strength.”
