text: Our Lord is also showing us how to have a marvelous "unity of life".
  
  He's telling us how to rectifiy what may seem superficially as competing demands.   He is showing us how to "resolve" (so simply) these various demands for our time and love.
  
  From the Gospel:
  
  "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."
  
  When we do anything we simply need to do it with all our heart soul mind and strength OUT OF LOVE FOR GOD.
  
  In this way, visiting old Aunt Berta in the hospital becomes prayer, an exchange of our time and self FOR GOD.  
  
  All events become an act of worship of God, so that we can actually (and simply but not without some practice and difficulty and effort) "pray always" and "rejoice always".  
  
  Our Lord is giving a pointer.