Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
—2 Corinthians 5:17
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 hand-crafted 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.
