Life and Love on the Vine is not painless. The world hated Jesus and we are told that persecution will come to us as well. But we have a greater promise: a helper.
We are called to be people who show love God and love of people. That is what we should strive to be known for, not all the other things we often grasp onto.
Do we recognize how we are just a branch being nourished by the vine of our Savior or do we try to be the vine?