Who has not looked at the clock and wished that, by moving the hands
forward or back, they could control time? Instead, all too often, time is the
thing that controls us. We think of time as productive or squandered, too swift
or agonizingly slow. But the truth is, we seldom spend enough of our time
reflecting on why we view it in a certain light and how time can be an
opportunity to experience the sacred.
By pausing to write about the different times in our life, what they
mean to us and where God’s fingerprints can be found, all time becomes more
precious. You will find that your journal can serve as a powerful lens, allowing
you to look deep within the moment and beyond it all at once. Your time becomes
God’s time, and with God in charge, we are free to live without the clock as our
master.
Use the following questions to help you explore the concept of time:
DIVINE TIME
- When I think of
eternal time, what images come to mind?
- When does time
stretch before me as if it will never end?
- How can I make the
time I have holy?
WASTED TIME
- When I think of
wasted time, what images come to mind?
- What are the
things that cause me to squander time?
- How can wasted
time become holy time?
REDEEMED TIME
- When I think of
redeemed time, what images come to mind?
- When do I feel
that I have bought time, when there was no time?
- How can I
recognize that time has been made holy?
LEISURE TIME
- When I think of
leisure time, what images come to mind?
- How can leisure
give me more time?
- In what ways is
leisure time holy time?
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Photograph ©2007 Ann Smithwick