I am sitting at my laptop trying to think of something to blog about. Nothing comes to mind, except write, uh type, anyway. So that's what I'm doing. I think that perhaps the biggest lesson we learn from Christ is to do as we're told. Obey. Jesus was obedient all the way to a cross on Calvary.  Jesus asked that He not have to go that far, but He did anyway. He didn't want to go through the agony, the excruciating pain of it all, the desolation and alone-ness. Do you know that excruciating comes from the same Latin root as crucify and cross? This pain is so bad and unique to crucifixion that they had to come up with a new word for it!  Jesus, knowing all things like He does, didn't want to experience that kind of pain but He was obedient. He obeyed. He wanted to please His Father.   Hebrews 5:7- 9 says During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions  with fervent cries and tears  to the one who could save him from death, an...