(Part two of two)  “We long for love, we wish we had more time, and we fear death,”.—Sr. Rose Pacatte  the Responsorial Antiphon Psalm 72 (see 7) places love, time, and death in context, “Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.”  

The Gospel concerning the genealogy of Jesus sounds like it is about life, but it is just as much about death, “fourteen generations” worth (Matthew 1:17).  Maybe that yearning cannot be forced, but maybe it can.  The faithful can force flowers to bloom and even delivery of babies.  For another view, the effort to love God, Jesus, and all creation can take effort and is worth the effort, without it “kind of happening.”