This morning, as usual on Sunday, I read the prescribed readings for the Catholic liturgy. And I reflected on these lines from Matthew 10:37-39

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me,
and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
and whoever does not take up his cross
and follow after me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

And I wonder if these lines might be rewritten for our times and culture as

“When your ego is invested in your past more than in your now, you are not at rest in divinity;
and when your ego is invested in your future more than in your now, you are not at rest in divinity;
and whoever does not accept spiritual darkness,
as Jesus did, is not at rest in divinity,

Whoever treasures their ego will lose their true selves,
and whoever loses their ego in divine oneness will find their true selves.”