Posts Tagged ‘Reassurance’

John 14:1-6

We all have moments when our hearts our troubled, the kind that makes our guts churn, saps our resolve, and makes us turn inward.

We mess up. We fail. Like Peter, in the passage before today’s Gospel, we make lofty promises—“Lord, I will lay down my life for you”—only to fall short.

Or we look at what is going on around us—in our community, in our country, in the world—and we despair. We despair at our helplessness and powerlessness, at all that we know to be wrong but that is beyond us to rectify.

We are limited, fallible, frail creatures. Read More