Like I said yesterday, as the liturgical year wraps up our readings will become more and more oriented towards preparedness and the end of times. Once again, today's Gospel features Jesus reminding us to be prepared always because we cannot know the day.
"Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it." Lot's wife simply looked back. The Lord invited her into a new life and she turned her face away and looked back toward her old life. She doubted God's providence and she revelled in her idolatry and comfort.
Jesus doesn't pretend it's easy. He's not going to turn us into a pillar of salt for remembering with fondness our lives before we started living for Him. But He aches for us to know and trust His goodness. He yearns for us to run toward Him because we would be so happy. It hurts Him when we sin because each sin a rejection. It's another thorn on His crown.
There are some who think that we need to "progress" beyond the shackles of Christianity and the Catholic Church (looking at you Freud). There are many who don't understand what the Church asks what she does of her people. They don't understand that the Church is a doting mother who wants her children to thrive. Sometime I'm even among them. What happens to children that think they know better than their parents? They get hurt.
"Anyone who is so 'progressive' as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son." St. Paul entreats us not to be deceived. Remain in Christ.