May 29, 2022

Dear St. Martin of Tours Family and Friends,

He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the human heart;
yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.Ecclesiastes 3:11

I have come to the strangest of conclusions. Somehow, God can multiply time, not unlike the way he multiplied loaves and fish.

When you don’t pray in the morning, and the day goes on, and you check various items off your to-do list, and you run to and fro and bounce off the bumpers of the pinball machine of life, by the time evening comes, you either find you’ve fallen short, or, if you have completed everything, you discover weeks or months later that much of what you thought you had done well was in fact for naught.

Does not Our Lord say, “Without me, you can do nothing”? - John 15:5

Once you come to your senses and choose to pray first thing in the morning (or if not the first thing, maybe the second thing), and you take time out for God, then a new mode of living in time subtly takes over. So that even when you don’t get everything done on your list done, somehow in retrospect you get things accomplished. Almost mysteriously, with little friction, our work finds its completion.

“I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength!” - Philippians 4:13

Tempus fugit. Memento mori!