How many stories have you written for your life? I have had multiple versions.

Darkness can come unexpectedly. A cancer diagnosis. A job layoff. A divorce request. One moment you understand life and see the road ahead, the next your future is in doubt. Sometimes the darkness doesn’t come through a crisis, but through a growing malaise that slowly engulfs you.

Jesus didn’t give them a way to help themselves. No, he shared a means that was beyond any of their control or conception. He presented himself as the Way. Through the lens of today’s culture, this is an insane plan, especially knowing what the future held in the hours immediately after he said this.

It can seem impossible to move beyond this place of regret. The trash heap is too large. We can never move it. But, what if we don’t have to make the change?