The Time We Still Have
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One thing I’ve learned about myself: I absolutely hate wasting time.
Sometimes it happens to you—like being stuck on hold with customer service. The time might not actually be wasted since you need to resolve the issue, but you’re not getting those minutes back. It stings.
It stings even more when you’re the cause. You pull up a YouTube video to learn how to replace a brakelight. Next thing you know, an hour’s gone and you’re watching highlights from a game you didn’t even care about.
Advent is the right season to think about this—about wasted time, about the time we actually have.
The Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote: “It is not that we have so little time, but that we have wasted so much of it.”
We’re naturally thinking about preparing for Christmas—in more ways than one But how are we preparing for Christ’s coming?
Maybe we’ve wasted time up till now.But the good news is that there’s still time. Not much, but enough.
Advent reminds us that this life is one of preparation. And the truth is that every moment is a chance to turn toward the Lord who is always turning toward us.
The question isn’t whether we’ve wasted time. We have. The question is: what will we do with the time we still have?