Hurrying

If God was in a hurry He could have created the world in a wink of the eye. He could have shortened everything including the Incarnation, the Redemption as well as the Second Coming for a Millinium of Peace. But God desired to have seconds to make minutes, minutes to make hours and days and weeks and months and years and so on for life to go on as it should. It is the best and only divine management and any tampering on that orderly arrangement spells havoc and disaster.

Hurrying is sometimes necessary but when it is already a habit it could be very unpleasant. Hurried cooking can lead to conflagration while hurried bath could break faucets or invite detrimental slip on the cement. Hurried eating can cause suffocation and hurried drinking, drowning.

Yet, the world is now in a hurry not because there is a need for it. I think the life style of the present generatiuon is basically geared to hurrying. My wife for instance would wake up at 4:00 a.m. but more often than not she would be late for the 8:00 a.m mass. She would make appointment at 10:00 o'clock, dilly-dally during the free time then hurry during the last few minutes. The driver himself has to hurry and a lot of tension follows.

I haven't forgotten to remind her about it but just as well she would still end up hurrying. She is the eleventh hour woman but that was not necessarily the result of our hurried courship and wedding. What is disturbing is the fact that she has influenced all my children, that they usually bump on each other in their hurry to do their chores. Thye are all hurring for success which is a good idea after all.