How Can We Know The Way?

Thomas, the apostle, asked this question for all of us. Despite all that we have heard about our faith, the fog of routine activities or unexpected demands, doubts placed in our minds by conversations or what he see on TV or read in the papers, sometime blur the way.  As Jesus tried to prepare the Eleven for his permanent departure and for their eventual "taking charge" of his mission, he spoke of leaving to ready a place for them, and come back to them to take them to himself.  "so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way." (Jn 14: 3-4)  In response to Thomas' protest about not knowing where he was going, and thus, not knowing the way, Jesus replies:  "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me." (Jn 14: 6)  A direct answer that lifts the fog and enables us to move forward with confidence on the track which satisfies our quandries and leads us to peace.  We need learn more about Jesus through our reading of the Scripture and through the mirror of others' reflections on him (such as Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth, or Jose Pagola's Jesus, An Historical Approximation), and by simply sitting quietly in his presence (at home or before the Blessed Sacrament in church). How is Jesus our way, our truth and our life?  The clearer this becomes, the more sure we can be of "the way"... of not only surviving, but thriving in a world that does not know him or simply ignores him.
Bro. Rene