Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - April 4, 2025
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from You.”
At the risk of sounding very much out of touch, living in another age, etc., I'd like to urge that we learn to relish doing one thing at a time. Why out of touch? Well, it's certainly fashionable and makes one look very busy (and important) if one “must” make phone calls while driving, eat and drink breakfast while driving, read the paper while breakfasting (and ignoring the family), have a coffee break while texting. We get into a habit of being elsewhere mentally than where we are physically; we are never truly present to the people and situation before us. Thanks to iPhone and similar items, we can avoid ever “wasting” time in simple human association, in enjoying a cup of coffee or moments with a two-year old. It's almost a kind of puritanism, as if enjoyment and pleasure in others, their company, food, the view, as if all these were less worthy than work and can only be endured if accompanied by something useful.
How unlike the situation where we relish the moment before us and try to enter as fully as possible into it, holding on to it, actually, so as to enjoy totally a never-to-return moment. You even get these admonitions in TV commercials, movies, etc., but most of us still need periodic reminders!
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
