REFLECTIONS ON USE OF TIME
Fr. Leo Rock is a Jesuit priest who wrote a reflection he entitled "An Examination of My Use of Time" which I found thought provoking and worth mediating over. I hope you find something here to reflect on as well. Here's what he wrote:
Killing Time
How do I kill time?
Let me count the ways.
By worrying about things
Over which I have no control.
Like the future
By harboring resentment
And anger
Over hurts
Real or imagined
By distaining 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 what 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
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Beautiful poem, full of meaning and associations for me. I have spent many years worrying about things over which I have no control, like the past like the future. Thank you Fr. Rock for this wonderful reminder that Jesus did not kill time He gave life to it , His own.
My husband and I had a wonderful friend some forty years ago. A jesuit priest named Leo Rock. He was a psychologist and was studying in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the University of St. Paul’s. We spent many wonderful evenings discussing many subjects. We lost
touch over the years. I was looking for signs of him when I came across your poem on Google. Our Leo Rock would be about 83 years old today. Is there a way we might find him?
Mary Bourdeau, and Robert Bourdeau, Canadian Photographers, living in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.