Every day I worry that I waste too much time zipping around to Internet sites, and I always feel I spend too much time on social media. But each day, I get a bit of inspiration, a bit of uplift that keeps me hopeful that it's not a complete waste of time. I've pasted some samples below.
And it's also worth remembering that I've always wasted some time: trashy books, afternoon talk shows like Oprah, gossiping with colleagues. It's good to remember that they weren't all complete wastes of time. And it's probably unrealistic to expect myself to be productive every waking hour.
A Facebook friend who is a female pastor made this post:
As I drove to my last radiation treatment this morning and listened to the news about the escalation of the war in Ukraine and Russia, I remembered C.S. Lewis words, “How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." And here, I don't think he's talking about the saints with a capital S, but those who persist in the small, everyday acts of courage, hope, and kindness. These are the things that make for peace and that will, in the end, erase every memory of the great unoriginal tyrants.
A Facebook friend who is a female pastor made this post (completely unrelated to the above quote):
An Advent thought from Brazilian theologian Ruben Alves: “Hope is that presentiment that the imagination is more real, and reality less real, than we had thought. It is the sensation that the last word does not belong to the brutality of facts with their oppression and repression. It is the suspicion that reality is far more complex than realism would have us believe, that the frontiers of the possible are not determined by the limits of the present, and that miraculously and surprisingly, life is readying the creative event that will open the way to freedom and resurrection.”
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