When my wife and I passed through Groom, Texas we saw a huge cross and stopped to walk through the stations around the cross. Station Eleven was particularly poignant to me. The angle of the soldier’s arm suggests the force with which he nailed our Savior to the cross. Every time I see it, it grips my stomach and then my conscience – since He suffered all this for me.

This station reminds me of the old Negro Spiritual

They crucified my Lord,
and he never said a mumbalin’ word;
they crucified my Lord,
and he never said a mumbalin’ word.
Not a word, not a word, not a word.

They nailed him to a tree,
and he never said a mumbalin’ word;
they nailed him to a tree,
and he never said a mumbalin’ word.
Not a word, not a word, not a word.

Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ Ministries
Station Eleven
Groom, Texas