I find it fascinating that Christians have made so many pretty crosses.

This cross is in a beautiful church in a resort community on the panhandle of Florida, Seaside. I had not seen a cross with shells pressed into sand other than in a Vacation Bible School Craft. Don't get me wrong, it is pretty.

This photo is of where a cross used to be in a United Methodist Church in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia. The sanctuary was heavily vandalized during the civil war, and even the cross was taken down for someone to use the wood or metal for something else entirely. It must have been a pretty cross by looking at what was left behind. However, the witness of the cross is still there announcing that Christ gave his all for us.

You, like me, may possess a number of crosses; some may be pretty, some simple, some ornate, some handmade. They are all reminders of this day, even the one that is missing.