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So we have Jesus.

Jesus carrying his cross. Jesus carrying his cross.

Jesus carrying the cross.

But we say it's his cross, right?

The question is this, whose was it?

Whose cross was it?

And I think it's funny. When there's something we like, when there's something we want, we are just as human beings, we're quick to claim it. Like we say that's all that's mine, like that, that park, that's my spot in line, that's my place in line, or like that's my parking stall, that's my parking spot. But when it's something we don't want, right? When something we don't like, when we don't want this, what do we do? I think a lot of times there was a comic strip back in the day that my mom really liked. She liked it for a number of reasons. It's about a family. And in the family, the mom would always say, what my mom would say, which is there's these three characters, three people in our family.

And the characters, the people in our family are, I don't know, nobody and not me.

Because my mom would ask a question in the comic strip as well, they'd say, like, who did this?

I don't know.

Or what did you do that at that?

I don't know.

Who did that?

Nobody.

Whose fault is this?

Not me.

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