Bo Noonan teaches as we continue in our series "The Upper Room." As Jesus and his disciples are departing from the Passover meal, Jesus shares a metaphor for his, the Father's, and our relationship to one another. This metaphor is packed with loads of meaning for the original hearers. Jesus speaks of God that Father as a "vinedresser" who tends lovingly to each individual branch of a vine that is meant to find its health and fruit-bearing potential from the main vine, who is Jesus. We are the branches that are meant to be connected to the True Vine and carefully tended by the Vinedresser.