Having a Place

     Everybody needs a place. A place to live, a home. A vocational place, a place to work. A social place, to belong to one's clan and society. Much of life is spent seeking and consolidating our places. We strive for better places, higher and more secure places.

However, it was not this way with Jesus, who said of himself that he had so place to lay his head, but spent all his life making places for other people; and when he finally left his disciples, he said "I go to prepare a place for you."  Remarkable.