Acts 13:26-33 / John 14:1-6
If we are driving to a place that we have not been before, we would certainly make some preparations beforehand.
We would check the map for directions and with modern technology, we may even be able to get a street view of the location.
Yet this has to be done beforehand. It would certainly be dangerous to drive and look at the map or whatever device that is helping us with the directions.
But the best help we can have will be to have someone with us who knows the way and tell us how to go and give us directions as we drive.
That was what Jesus told Thomas in the gospel: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Jesus is the Way to the Truth of Life. Those who know Him will know the way. Those who know Him are also witnesses of the way.
St. Paul witnessed to the Way when he said in the 1st reading: We have come here to tell you the Good News. It was to our ancestors that God made the promise but it is to us, their children, that he has fulfilled it, by raising Jesus from the dead.
We are also witnesses to the Way. Yet whenever we meet with troubles in life, we lose our way and we get into deeper trouble.
In such times, let us remember what Jesus said in the gospel: Trust in God still, and trust in me.
Yes, Jesus is always with us to help us and take us along the way. We only need to entrust ourselves to Him in prayer and live out that trust in Him along the way of life.