Not Abandoned

Have you ever gotten to the point in your life where you feel you just can’t go on?  I think we all have times like this.  Maybe someone has hurt you.  Maybe the pressures of life and work and family are starting to wear you down.  Maybe you’re bearing the burden of some particular sin.  We all have been in situations like this.

The disciples in the reading from chapter 14 of John’s Gospel are undergoing a similar stress.  They’ve been with Jesus for three years, but now (in the previous chap...