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The world has done a big disservice to Thomas. What I mean is this. When you think of the apostle Thomas, what is the first thing you remember?

Up and under. Up to Jesus’ cross. And under our own. As we continue the Lenten journey, we consider the cross bearing that we share with Christ and that he shares with us: The cross always brings rejection, and to our astonishment, that rejection has glory hidden in it.

A 17-year-old author named Pliny the Younger watched, as a firsthand witness, as Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city of Pompei.  He wrote about the event and said that a dense cloud shot up like a pine tree and the ash of eruption spread out in the air like the branches of a tree. 

Really? God can do immeasurably more than all I can ask or imagine?