1 Cor 7:25-31 / Luke 6:20-26
When everything comes to almost a standstill, it makes us start to think about life.
The recent experience of the last few months was like a standstill and we literally had to be cooped up in our homes.
We are like stopped in our tracks and being at a standstill, we begin to look around and reflect about our lives.
In the 1st reading, St. Paul urged to Corinthians to take a break and stop, so that they can reflect about what is going on with their lives.
The reason for doing so, as St. Paul puts it, is that time is growing short and the world as they know it is passing away.
But we can only come to realise that when we stop and start to look around and think about what life is all about.
The joys and hopes that we have, the troubles and difficulties that we face, should make us think about what the present life is all about.
But it should also make us think of the eternal life to come.
We need to take a stop, so that we look up to the heavens and see that there is where we must go because that is where we belong.