Stay the course

Mark 2:18-22
Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting; and people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" 
And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. 
The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. 
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. 
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins." 

Homily:
There is a time for everything.

The world forces comparison on us. There is always a good example other people can point to and they throw this good example at us, to buttress their point and entrench comparison. This unwittingly tries to force you to compete.

Comparison and competition undercuts your journey.

Know thyself.

Stay the course.