"Let not your hearts be troubled. In my Father's house there are many mansions..."
All the sermons on this text that I have heard have been in the context of the afterlife: each individual being accepted into the "heavenly lodge", as the Scots would say.
I have been perusing a wide variety of religious blogs, by definition dealing with a particular "ISM", and how one "ISM" is truer than another, and in the Catholic`s case,one time period (similar to Picasso's rose or blue periods?) the truer way and the the truth and the life.
Can't the scripture passage be addressed to those of us who get all wound up in knots over which path leads to you-know-where? Don't trouble yourself. In my father's house there are many churches and religions---though probably not alot of theologians!(As the old joke goes, just don't disturb the Catholics; they think they're the only ones up there.)
Addendum: At a funeral recently, the preacher said that when "Do not let your hearts be troubled" is translated from the Spanish it comes out, "Do not lose peace."
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