Good News B42 Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Mark 8:27-35 Take Up Your Cross and Follow MeChildren's Liturgy Devotional, Children's Sermon, Children's Homily,Catholic, Christian, written by Joan Y. Edwards

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Good News B42

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mark 8:27-35 New American Bible

Mark 8:27-35 Bible Gateway New International Version

Take Up Your Cross and Follow Me

Wake up with a song.

Offer God your painful cross all day long.

Ask God to bless your day.

Then follow him along life's way.

Go to sleep with a song.

God forgives all you did wrong.

Thank God for this day.

Tell him you are by his side to stay.

You and the little girl down the street each lead different lives. However, each of you has problems to deal with. Everyone has joys and sorrows in life. Each of us has to learn to be happy no matter what our circumstances are. True happiness comes from being in tune with God.

I have owned several cars in my life. After I got them paid for, the radios would break. I would only be able to get the A.M. stations. The only A.M. stations, I could get were the religious radio stations. I took this as a message that God wanted to talk with me.

Perhaps I was ignoring God. I might not have been saying my morning prayers. I might not have said, “Thank you for the daffodils. Wow! What a beautiful sunset you gave me today, Lord.” I may have been trying to solve a problem without asking God to help me.

God wants us to learn lessons in our lifetime. If we don’t learn it the first time, he may give us another experience to learn the lesson. A cross is an experience in which you suffer…hurt…feel really bad…that makes you suffer emotionally, physically, financially, and/or spiritually.

God wants you to ask him to help you. He wants you to offer up your suffering to him. He wants you to believe that He can and will heal you. He wants you to follow his commandments. He wants you to love him above all things. He wants you to love others as you love yourself. Follow him. He will show you the way to heaven.

Say the “Our Father” and ask God to heal you. Ask him to show you how to solve the problems you are carrying in your life. He will help you.

“Our Father, who art in Heaven,

Hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done,

On earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day, our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses,

As we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.