Familiar Objects of Devotion

He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me." - Mark 8:34

My best childhood friend and I would spend our summers riding our bikes around the streets of our neighborhood. This is not something that would be done these days, but in my youth parental admonition was often simply to “be home by dinner”.