The kids and grandkids began piling
in today from faraway lands like Texas and Mexico. Tomorrow we will all be together, and walk
through the hours of the last day of 2014 together. Time will be the topic du jour as we wait for
the ball to fall and another New Year to begin.
Dr. Albert Rossi, clinical
psychologist and teacher of pastoral theology at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, has
some interesting perspectives on the topic of time. I share a few of his quotes below:
Time
manages us because the Lord lives within the time He gives us. So, it is He,
through the reality we call measured time, Who manages, leads, nourishes and
strengthens us. We don’t live life. Life lives us…
One
handy suggestion is to push pause as often as we can. We can pause between the
stimulus and our response, thereby gaining perspective. The pause itself is
usually sufficient to break the reactivity cycle…
Time
is our friend, not our burden to endure. We need only remember that we are in
the holy presence of God. We can pause and say the Name of Jesus, thereby
bringing us into His very life within us. While on earth we have an opportunity
to “sanctify time.”
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