Time

One person’s good use of time is another person’s waste. Good, sincere, conscientious people obviously use time in very different ways and feel they’re right to do so.

’Tis the season to spend money. What we lack in time, we try to make up for in money, throwing it at people and problems who actually need minutes and hours.

“Time, Augustine thought (in the fourth century), is not our enemy, as it often seems, but rather God’s gift. It is the container God creates for us, so that we can receive God’s life.”

As we prepare during this Advent season, the sweetest gifts we can give require a commodity more precious than treasure: time.