Our Precious Time

“Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?” – Mark 14:37, WEB

If we can’t give our loved ones our precious hour, how could we even promise them our lives? What is so important in your schedule that you can’t give an hour of attention to someone you love?

There are people who are so oppressed in both time and money that their lives seem no longer theirs to give. There are many also who sacrifice so much just to give good things to those they love.

But there are those who seem to forget that the most important thing they could give are not their gifts, but their very presence. And there are those who fail to find time not because there isn’t any, but because there is not much will to find a way.

You may never truly know how precious that single hour of your presence could be for another person. To someone who is grieving, that hour could be an hour of great consolation. To someone who is lonely, that hour could be the only hour he meets a friend. To someone who is lost, it could be the very hour he is saved.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. – Mother Teresa

Check Jocelyn's books:

"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.

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