Whenever we talk about the future, we talk about it with so much uncertainty.
We don't know what the future will be like, we can't predict it for sure, and situations can change and things happen with just a blink of the eye.
The future is indeed a mystery. We can only know that much about it and yet there is a lot more that we do not know.
If that is what we say about the future in this life, then what can we say about the after-life?
We believe in the after-life, the eternal life, and it is a promise made by Jesus that when we follow His ways on earth faithfully and serve Him, we will be rewarded with the eternal life in heaven.
In the gospel, Jesus tells us that the God we believe in is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
God is the God of life on earth and in heaven. All life is in His hands for He is the Creator of life.
Knowing that much about the after-life should quell our speculation about whether there is an after-life and what is it like.
But knowing that God is holding our life in His hands even while we are on earth should make us put our faith and trust in Him.
In the 1st reading, Tobit and Sarah put their lives into the hands of God God in their moment of distress and despair.
May we too put our lives and our future into the hands of God and put our faith and trust in Him as He leads us through life.