Wasted time

     How many times have you wasted precious Time by scrolling on the internet or watching countless hours of TV on useless footage that are just that? Accountability for this wasted time will be brought to mind at the hour of judgment. Do you know, the month of May is dedicated to our beloved Blessed Mother Mary? Why not pray and dedicate those minutes to our beloved Lady? 

     Instead of wasting time with other people's lives, why not study up or dedicate your time on this beloved Mother?. It is time well spent on recounting our Mother's life and all that She is and does and can do to help us and the world, and our families. Her power is real. Her scenarios of Her life are real. She watches also in Heaven at our daily lives. She waits for us to ask Her for Her assistance in our trials and runs to us with every plea that we include Her in. By asking Her to be our Mother too, She immediately pleads our case to the Heavenly court and the Throne of God. Just like God is our good Father, She is our good Mother. As God Himself, in the Holy form of Jesus Christ, gave Her to us, we must recognize Her everyday as just that. Every moment, as our Hope, as our link to the Heavenly Father, as we petition Her to intercede for us and our loved ones and this weary world. Her role, from even before She was born, was to be our Mother. We are Her orphans. We are His children. The numerous titles that She holds are unlimited. Just to name a few, She is the Undoer of knots, She is Our Lady of the forsaken, She is Queen of Heaven and Earth. 

     By the time you look at how your lives were wasted on meaningless stories of people with too much time on their hands, or all of the harsh TV reporting of how bad the world has become, you feel drained and cynical, wishing you could have that time back to be more well spent. But it is gone and you have nothing to show for it but a fearful, hopeless sense of deterioration in the human race. Not so when you meditate or pray to Mary. She lingers with Hope and Peace in knowing that we have resigned ourselves for Her to give our petitions to our Heavenly Father through Her pure and Immaculate hands. That Hope is then transmitted to us as She lovingly looks upon our devotion to Her. 

     Fasting doesn't just mean with food. You can also include how much time you spend wasting that time. Making a promise to use every moment reflecting on Mary praying to Her, Jesus, the Saints, or really anything that has to do with God. 

    Our whole e being was meant to glorify and honor our Creator at all times. By giving Him the very moment we wake up in the morning, till the time we close our eyes for sleep. Distractions were created by the evil one. There are plenty of them, as he provides the television and Internet. Turn them off regularly and sit in the presence of God and His (our) beloved Blessed Mother Mary. The benefits of this act are numerous in Grace. It will no longer be "wasted time", but "beneficial time"on our behalf. Benefiting our souls and minds to the good, not the bad.