A TIMELY PRAYER

I saw this prayer this morning and it expressed exactly what I needed to hear!

Prayer for the Beginning of the Week
by Jim Manney

AN EXAMINATION OF MY USE OF TIME

Killing Time--How do I kill time? Let me count the ways.

By worrying about things over which I have no control. Like the past. Like the future.

By harboring resentment and anger over hurts real or imagined.

By disdaining the ordinary or, rather, what I so mindlessly call ordinary.

By concern over what’s in it for me, rather than what’s in me for it.

By failing to appreciate what is because of might-have-beens, should-have-beens, could-have-beens.

These are some of the ways I kill time.

Jesus didn’t kill time. He gave life to it. His own.
—Leo Rock SJ