In her book Receiving the Day Dorothy Bass describes:: "We delude ourselves into believing that if we can just get everything done, if we can only tie up all the loose ends, if we an even once get ahead of the crush, we will prove our worth and establish ourselves in safety. Our problem with time is social, cultural, and economic, to be sure. But it is also a spiritual problem, one that runs right to the core of who we are as human beings...Indeed, these distortions drive us into the arms of a false theology: we come to believe that we, not God, are the masters of time. We come to believe that our worth must be proved by the way we spend our hours and that our ultimate safety depends on our own good management." The reality is that time is a stream we are swept into. Time is a gift from God, a means of worship...time is not mine. It does not revolve around me. Time revolves around God--what he has done, what he is doing, and what he will do.
Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary