Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the
new has come.
It was 1:35—for years. The hands of that old clock were stuck.
It was time for a change. And Easter was the perfect season to make the switch.
I removed the clock from my living room wall and replaced it
with a beautiful handcrafted cross. I received the cross in exchange for a
donation to Teen Challenge, a program which
“provides successful recovery for women, children, young men and families with
destructive, abusive and addictive lifestyles through mentoring, education,
training and spiritual direction.”
The wood for these crosses is handpicked from old, discarded
horse fencing from the Teen Challenge Northern Virginia farm. Cut and stained
by the students, the crosses are a reflection of what happens in their lives.
They come into the program broken, but as a result of Christ’s work in their
lives, they become new.
Is it time for a change in your life? Have you found yourself in a cycle of destructive behavior? Have you been repeating the same mistakes, going ‘round and ‘round again like the hands of a clock?
