"Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come." -Matthew 24:42
The gospel for today talks about the rapture. That there will come a time that some of us will just disappear without any trace and some of us will remain on this earth. This will be a sign that the coming of the Lord is near. It is stated that it is not known and will never be known to us when this will happen. The gospel only reminds us to prepare for it. Have you ever experienced something that you weren't prepared for? A pop quiz, a failing grade even though you studied so hard, seeing someone you weren't expecting to see and the like. How did it feel? It didn't feel good right? So we learn from it. We try to better ourlselves in dealing with such situations, we plan things in our minds that in case it'll happen again, we'll be able to do this or say that. We will now study or review our lessons from time to time because if ever our teacher would decide to have a quiz, we'll be prepared for it. We will now figure out on which areas we should improve or