The final words we share with another person are so important. In our scripture today, we read words from Jesus, just before he says goodbye to his friends and goes to heaven.  

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How central is the idea of friendship to how you understand faith? How central is joy? In today's scripture, Jesus describes Christianity as a joyful experience of friendship. 

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Loss is one of the most powerful forces that shapes our lives, both in how the pain and devastation affects us, and in how it creates new beginnings and fresh possibilities.

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Stories of trauma and triumph, help us to see timeless truths about grace and new life. To make these truths shine, the gospels sometimes tell stories in pairs.   

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There are things that we need know in life, which we have access to, things we can grab onto and use, if we trust that we really do have the knowledge, the competency, the wisdom that is called for.  But it can be difficult to trust that we really know what we need to know.

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The blessed life is full of striving and dedication and passion. But it is also a life of restraint, remembering to retreat, and say no when the time is right.  

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The story of Jesus sleeping in a boat during a great storm, and speaking peace into the waves, is a story of God's awesome power, to be sure. But it's also a reminder of how Christ urges us to engage things we'd like to avoid, and his promise to be with us all the while.  

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Some things that happen aren't seen as they happen. They are discovered to have happened, later.

When the Apostle Paul encourages Jesus followers to consider themselves adopted members of God's family, he is making a profound and radical statement about the expansiveness of God's grace and love.    

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In the deep quiet of night, Jesus and a Pharisee contend with an invitation to a life that is like the wind, expansive and unconfined, without beginning or end