No Time to Waste

6/19/2020

The Psalmist cries out:

O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
(Psalm 39:4)

Some of you have heard me share (more than once!) what was so imprinted on me in seminary: “Haste characterizes love”. In other words, when you know that your end is to love, there is no time to waste. Lovers do not dilly-dally. They are about the urgent business of loving.

The Swiss philosopher and poet, Henri Frédéric Amiel (+1881), says this beautifully:

Life is short and we do not have much time
to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us.
O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Indeed, “Christ’s love compels us...” (2 Corinthians 5:14)

Dominique Peridans

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The Rev. Charles Hoffacker is a retired priest of the Diocese of Washington
who lives in Greenbelt, Maryland. He and his wife Helena Mirtova are members of Ascension and St. Agnes.

The Rev. Mary McCue, is a vocational deacon and currently ministers at Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes.

The Rev. Dominique Peridans is the Rector of Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes.

Molly Jane Layton is a seminarian intern at Ascension and St. Agnes.

Zach Baker Rodes is a seminarian intern at Ascension and St. Agnes.

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