To Know the Mysteries

“I tell you the truth,

unless a kernel of wheat

is planted in the soil and dies,

it remains alone.
But its death will produce many new kernels—

a plentiful harvest of new lives.”

John 12:24

I’ve found myself pondering a lot this week.

Just barely a week before He hung bloody and beaten on the cross, Jesus told His disciples “unless a kernel of wheat…dies, it remains alone.”

But they didn’t understand. They didn’t see.

Mary, overcome by love and destiny, came to Jesus during dinner a few nights later –...