Station VIII
Jesus Speaks To The Women of Jerusalem

We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You because by Your holy Cross you have redeemed the world.

Look at Jesus
   After Jesus gets up, he continues on the road carrying his heavy cross.  He passes some women who are crying because they are so sad to see Jesus suffer.

   But instead of thinking only of himself and how bad he feels, Jesus tells the women not to keep crying because of him.  He tells them, instead, to take care of others, and especially to take care of their children.

Look at Your Heart
   Sometimes it is easy to just think about ourselves -- about what is not going the way we want it, or about problems that we have.  It is very hard, then, to think about other people.  How does your heart look when you do that, when you think only about yourself?

   Show your heart to Jesus, and picture Jesus loving you with your heart that way.  When you are ready, can you ask Jesus to help you have a heart like his, a heart that thinks about other people and remembers other people?  That's the kind of heart Jesus has.