How Do We Spend Our Time?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How we spend our time is one of the most valuable decisions we make, because time is one thing we can never get back once it’s gone. Maybe God is calling you to do something more with your time, in this very moment even, but distractions are pulling you in too many different directions to focus. Make no mistake, distractions steal our time, even those we willfully choose. Even worse, as St. Alphonsus Ligouri said, voluntary distraction can steal our soul.
Maybe there’s a dozen different things you know you should be doing, but you can’t choose one, so you choose none. If that’s the case, Fr. Mike says to take solace in the fact that you only have to choose one task, because the reality is that multitasking doesn’t work anyway. Holiness is to choose one thing, namely to say yes to God’s will. So choose your one sacrifice, and say yes to the focused and singular task of holiness.
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| 0:00.0 | How many further make experiments and this is a sense of resistance? |
| 0:08.1 | So I came across something the other day that likened how old you are to the time of day |
| 0:13.0 | it was. |
| 0:14.0 | It's the time of day. |
| 0:15.0 | It was. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | So it said, if you are 15 years old, it is a leaven week. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm going to read it. |
| 0:20.5 | If you're 15 years old, it's 10, 25 in the morning. |
| 0:24.0 | And then it kept going on and I'll read some of them. |
| 0:26.3 | If you are 20 years old, it is 11, 34 a.m. |
| 0:28.9 | If you're 25 years old, it is 1242 p.m. |
| 0:33.2 | So if you're 25 years old, it's just afternoon. |
| 0:36.1 | And if your life was just a day, 25 years old, 1242. |
| 0:41.2 | If you're 35 years old, it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| 0:44.8 | I'll jump into a decade. |
| 0:46.9 | If you're 45 years old, very close, 45 years old, it's 515 p.m. |
| 0:51.8 | 515 in the evening in the afternoon. |
| 0:54.6 | Wow. |
| 0:55.6 | It goes on and on. |
| 0:57.6 | If you're 50 years old, it's 625. |
| 1:00.0 | Jump to the last number they give. |
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