Pledging allegiance.(the blessing of the cross)(Brief Article)

The Christian Century | October 6, 1999| | Copyright

Matthew 22:15-22

AS I WAS putting our nine-year-old son to bed, I bent down to kiss him goodnight. He reached up, pulled my face toward his, and gave me seven kisses--four down and three across--on my forehead. Then he looked me in the eye and said, "Mom, you are blessed."

"Did you realize you kissed me in the shape of a cross?" I asked him.

"Yep," he answered, "I planned it that way."

Over the years Ben had seen the sign of the cross made on other people's foreheads, with ashes during Lent and with water during services of baptismal ...

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