Our personal perspective affects everything we see and our perspective changes throughout our life. Ever re‑visit your elementary school as an adult? Isn’t it startling to see how those long hallways and big auditoriums you remember have shrunk in size? Giant and grandiose suddenly look small and shabby.

The curvature of the earth creates a different horizon for everyone, depending upon where you are standing. Staring out to sea, from a personal perspective, the world seems to end in nothingness over the edge of the horizon. But sail out to that apparent end and whole new expanse of ocean stretches out before you. What looked like it was the end of everything was really the place of a new beginning.

In John’s gospel once Jesus reaches Jerusalem he spends a long time speaking to his discip…