Chosen Tom Euston Today’s Gospel reading is a continuation of last weeks reading. You may recall that last week we read about Jesus being the vine and us the branches, and how we receive our nourishment from the vine. You may remember Jesus saying we must abide in him. In today’s reading this gets expanded a bit. Today we read that we abide in Jesus’ love, by keeping or obeying his commandments. Then he gives his disciples his commandment. “Love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. When reading the Gospel of John, the meaning of verses is often in two contexts. There is the story that is being told, the narrative of Jes
Jesus, The True Vine Tom Euston The Boston Marathon recently took place and was won by an Ethiopian named Lelisa Desisa. This year a sense of normalcy returned to the marathon after the tragic bombing that took place two years ago. I would like to share a story that came out of the 2013 Boston Marathon. Laura Wellington, a runner in the Boston Marathon, was half a mile from the finish line when the explosion went off. In shock near the finish line, she was comforted by a man who gave her his medal for finishing the race - a gesture she said reassured her that "even though such a terrible thing had happened, everything was going to be OK." She posted her story to Facebook in hopes of finding
