A Place For Us

A familiar Gospel at funerals, the promise of "a place for us" in the life to come always seems to bring comfort to the mourners as well as for some, to conjure up the lyrics and melody  of  the beautiful song from the classic musical, West Side Story, There's a Place for Us. Mourners or not, the longing for " a better place", the one graduates hope to create when they "take over the world", is part of our unfulfilled human condition.
Where is this place of many mansions and how do we get there? When Thomas asked, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?" (Jn 14:5), Jesus gives THE answer:  "I am the way, and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me." (Jn 14:6).  We've heard this thousands of times, but when it boils down to it, THIS IS the answer.  The consoling thing is that we don't have to wait till death to be in that "better place." It can be found right now, right here in Jesus.  Why look elsewhere?
Bro. Rene