The word “life” in the Gospel reading for today provides four letters with which to think about what Jesus says.

“L” for “listen”. The people in the story Listen to Jesus and are not happy at what they hear, Saint John Chapter 6 Verse 41 tells us, “Then the Jews began to complain about him.” One wonders if they were really prepared to listen to all that Jesus might say, or if they simply wanted to find words with which to disagree. It seems they had already made up their …