Let's have a cross veneration thread. It's the instrument that our Lord died on for our sins. :,)
Behold, O Kind and most sweet Jesus, before Thy face I humbly kneel, and with the most fervent desire of soul, I pray and beseech Thee to impress upon my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity, true contrition for my sins and a firm purpose of amendment. With deep affection and grief of soul, I ponder within myself, mentally contemplating Thy five wounds, having before my eyes the words which David the King spoke concerning Thee: "They have pierced my hands and my feet, they have numbered all my bones."