Do you ever feel like life changes so much and so fast that you can't seem to get a handle on it? Like having a child graduate and prepare to leave the nest... sometimes it keeps you up at night. You stare at the ceiling fan. You know that it's good and right, but you've lived the last 18 years having some sense of control. Then you find yourself at a turn where things are in motion and you can't direct and control them like you once could. Life can be like that when it changes on you. But here in John we have the words of Jesus... he was getting ready to leave in a different way... he wanted to reassure his friends and disciples that they could be confident that it was all part of the plan... they couldn't control it... they couldn't stop it. As much as they didn't want life to change for them in that way, it had to in order for the greater, more lasting change to occur. Sometimes it's hard to see beyond the corner we're turning. But we have to have faith that around that corner is something better yet to come. So I should listen to these words and trust in them... but why can't I sleep?
Readings: 2 Samuel 7:1-8:18; John 14:15-31; Psalm 119:33-48; Proverbs 15:33
