Out Our Way: Follow me - John 12:24-26

Out our way, riding in unfamiliar territory can be tricky. It’s so easy to lose your sense of directions in areas where you have never been before. That is just another reason I was so glad to have Charlie riding with me. Even though I didn’t know where I was and was easily turned around, he knew the land and the trails. “Just follow me,” he would say, and, sure enough, we got where we had been heading all along. I just followed him.

I was reading a novel about St. Benedict who was advising a guy who thought he knew it all. The young official had made a name for himself, amassed great amounts...