In such situations, life becomes really unbearable. Everything seems to choke us. Everyone seems overbearing. I am sure we have all gone through such situations. That is what the readings of today are trying to tell us.
Life is filled with the unexpected, the unsurmountable and the monotonous.
I loved a certain ad. But there is more than what that ad says in today's readings. The first reading tells us that everything God created was and is always good. The earth and all that it contains is good. Everything is for our good.