SKYPING, Instant Messaging, Voice Mail, Email, Blogging, Twittering, Facebooking …. There is no shortage to ways we can remain connected with one another, and in so doing, consume the hours each day provides.
In the latest issue of First Things, I found the following poem which speaks to our propensity to fritter away precious time, perhaps keeping busy, but not really accomplishing all that much that is of lasting value.
I identify with Scaer’s verse. What about you?
Time Management
Luther in the year he spent
as Junker Joerg in Wartburg towers,
translated the New Testament
to pass the everlasting hours.
Though living as a refugee
Erasmus wrote his tour de force.
In Praise of Folly’s said to be
the product of a trip by horse.
With dinners late, D’Aguesseau saw
an opportunity to write
his sixteen-volume work of law
in fifteen minutes every night.
Today I slept late, took a walk,
sipped coffee on my ragged lawn,
checked the mailbox, saw the clock,
and noticed half my life was gone.
