From Cross to Light

I took this picture around 2011 when I was on my way to my mission church in Halfway, Oregon. It was a cloudy day with sunny intervals, and I noticed that someone had planted a wooden cross on a hill on the side of the road just before the descent into Halfway. Naturally I stopped and took a few good photos with the cross in the foreground and the sun peaking or shining through the clouds. This was very meaningful to me, as I saw the Cross being overwhelmed by the light of the Risen Christ, a beautiful meditation. If there is a title to this photo, it should be “The sufferings of Good Friday give way to the joy and glory of Easter,” or even “The darkness of the Cross leads to the Light of Christ.” May we also see this period in our lives as a transitional time from the suffering which so many people are experiencing because of Covid-19, to the eventual joy when it is all over and our lives can return to some kind of normalcy.