The Little Prince and Wasting Time with God
We learn that we should do something practical, we learn that increasing our wealth [economic wealth] should be our primary focus. Prayer, religion, helping others is a waste of our time, centering our life on God is simply not productive.
Read and ponder this short insight from Antoine Saint-Exupery’s novella, The Little Prince, “It is the time you wasted with you rose that makes it important.” Reflecting on your prayer life [the rose] by this world’s values is a waste of time, yet in the spiritual realm “what is important is wasting time” with God. For we who center our lives on God, we know prayer builds our relationship with God. Fidelity to prayer is fundamental to progress in the spiritual life.
Maybe these the Five Salesian Spiritual Principles can help us reflect on our prayer life.
1. listen to the heart
2. commit
3. perfect freedom
4. belonging to God
5. ordinary things
We live ordinary lives that belong to God, so in perfect freedom let’s commit to listen with our heart (including our soul and our will) to God and live our life for His glory. To finish your Advent preparations take some time to read The Little Prince.
May God Be Praised.
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