What does the cross mean to me?

Ok so today I have been of work again due to a bad case of man flu, something which women have no understanding on, its worse then normal flu, honest, ask anyone thats male and has had it.
So for the past two days I have been reading more (anyone who knows me well knows i dont read that much), and am currently reading a book called boy meets girl by Josh Harris. Its a cool book and i would advise anyone to read it that arent already married, and in some respects people that are may find it good too.

Anyway while reading it i came across a very cool bit about the cross and what it is, a view on the story of the cucifiction which made me sit up and really look at what it means to me, hope you think the same. Here it is:

As the man swings, the Son recalls how he and the Father first designed the medial nerve of the human forearm- the sensations it would be capable of. The design proves flawless-the nerves perform exquisittely. "Up you go!" They lift the cross. God is on display in his underwear and can scarcely breathe.
But these pains are a mere warm-up to his other and growing dread. He begins to feel a foreign sensation. Somewhere during this day an unearthly foul odor began to waft, nt around his nose, but his heart. He feels dirty. Human wickedness starts to crawl upon his spotless being - the living excrement from our souls. The apple of his fathers eye turns brown with rot.
His Father! He must face his Father like this!
From heaven the father now rouses himself like a lion disturbed, shakes his mane, and roars against the shrivelling remnant of a man hanging on a cross.
Never has the son seen the Father look on him so, never felt even the least of his hot breath. But the roar shakes the unseen world and darkens the visable sky. The son does not recognise these eyes.
"Son of Man! Why have you behaved so? Yu have cheated, lusted, stolen, gossiped-murdered, envied, hated, lied. You have cursed, ribbed, overspent, overeaten-fornicated, disobeyed, embezzled, and blasphemed. Oh the duties you have shirked, the children you have abandoned! Who has ever so ignored the poor, so played the coward, so belittled my name? Have you ever held your razor tongue? What a self-righteous, ptitiful drunk, you, who molest young boys, peddle killer drugs, travel in cliques, and mock your parents. Who gave you the boldness to rig elections, foment revolutions, torture animals, and worship demons? Does the list never end! Splitting families, raping virgins, acting smugly, playing the pimp, filiming pornography, accepting bribes. You have burned down buildings perfected terroist acts, founded false religions, traded in slaves. I hate, loathe these things in you! Disgust for everything about you consumes me! Can you not feel the wrath?"

Of course the things that God felt towards Jesus wasnt his actions but ours. I have thought long about these things listed as well as other sinfull stuff that has happend in my life that i have done. The Cross to me is where i feel closest to God, when I confess all i have done and know that 2000 years ago on that cross Jesus Christ took all of it on his shoulder, he showed the whole world how much he loved them and how much mercy he had for each of his people!!

I just want to leave you with the thought of this, not to make u feel guilty but to encourage you that God has shown Mercy and love towards us and that we need to accept it, as difficult as it is, If we confess our sins, through the cross we are forgiven, what love is that.

God Bless
Aaron