The Harvard man, motoring through the Carolinas, stopped short at the sight of a farmer holding a pig as the swine ate apples off a tree. We want our packages to arrive overnight. We want faster search engines for our computers. We even want people to talk faster on our answering machines so we can get on to the next message. We hail as a major breakthrough every new discovery that allows us to save time.
Time is everything.
I worry that we are missing something that is far deeper than time. In the process of all this rushing, we may be losing our connections to our friends, our sense of family and our spiritual life, and at times, our own sense of humanity. Society's major institutions, from schools to commercial employers, he said, too often require family time to be sacrificed in the name of success. The time we set aside to listen, to care, to meditate and pray, to lift someone up, or even help them heal, is very important. Please don't waste it on acrimony and division.