“Speed is God, and time is the Devil.”[1]
“One day, when I timed an annoying [computer] delay and found that it constituted all of ten seconds, I had what I would call a ‘monk moment,’ a quick slap that told me Pay attention, watch yourself. I had let technology and its attendant idol, efficiency, make a fool of me.”[2]
To ponder and pray:
Take the “Speed Questionnaire” in the back of this booklet … how do you score?
Reflection
And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day...
We are not finished with our work on the seventh day. Monday follows Sunday every single week. We are not finished with our work in seven weeks, or seven months, or seven years. By the time we get to seventy years we may have retired or may be thinking about retiring.
Of course God could rest on the seventh day. Doesn’t Genesis say that He had finished with his work? But had he? Our collect for the second Sunday after Christmas begins, “O God, who did wonderfully create, and yet more wonderfully restore, the dignity of human nature.” The work that He did on the sixth day, creating his troublesome creature, mankind, ensured that God’s work is never done either. He is constantly, everlastingly restoring us to the relationship that he created us to have with him.
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