“How we make crosses: The vertical bar pointing to the heavens is God’s Will.  The horizontal bar contradicting it is our will.  When our will is in conflict with God’s Will, we have a cross.  A cross in the mind is fear, anxiety, unhappiness.  A Cross in the body is pain.  How God Makes Crosses: Our life is going in a certain direction, maybe towards God.  But it is a crooked way, or a slow road, or we tarry too long on the road.  So God cuts another road cross-way to ours.  As we cross His Will by sin, so He crosses our will be love to make us perfect, and when He does it comes out as pain, sacrifice, sorrow, bereavement, trials and grief.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (About Crosses)