Business as usual

For most of us, today is just another day: a day in which we will busy ourselves with the usual things of our lives and work on a variety of plans.

Today’s first reading (James 3:13-17) reminds us of the fragility of human life and human plans.

Come now, you who say,
“Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town,
spend a year there doing business, and make a profit”–
you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow.

You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly
and then disappears.

Instead you should say,
“If the Lord wills it,
we shall live to do this or that.”

But now you are boasting in your arrogance.
All such boasting is evil.

So for one who knows the right thing to do
and does not do it,
it is a sin.

May we keep our focus always on the will of God and resolve to follow God’s will in every aspect of our lives.