Reflection for February 22

Well, these days I think we know only too well how we have sadly damaged and polluted the gift of God’s Creation. And I think we’re perhaps less aware of how much we have also damaged and, one could say, polluted the gift of time. For many of us, time is experienced no longer as a precious gift, but almost like an enemy. We haven’t got enough time…. Or on the other hand we waste time and we fritter it away and kill time. All of these things I think… bear witness to a sense of disorderedness, a disordered relationship with this precious gift (Brother Geoffrey Tristram, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Lenten Study Series, available HERE).