I am now back in Montréal. Thank you for your prayers. I am rather saddened not to be in 100 Mile House anymore. I miss my family there, the landscape, the quietness of nature, the cheesy stores, the coffee shops and the “holiday feeling” I had.

Something that kept coming back on my mind throughout my time in BC was the idea of leisure and what we do with it. The holidays are a good example. It seemed to me a scary thought to realize that we literally kill the time given us. I know that sometimes there is nothing to do (in our eyes) and we seek ways to kill time. Crossword puzzles, books, video games, food and computers are just a few. It is not that I believe those things to be wrong in themselves, I am just wondering about the reason or motivation for us to spend hours doing this or that because there seem to be no better things to do. I don’t know but it scares me to think that we willfully kill time.

I believe there are proper times to do crossword puzzles and play video games, but I don’t think they should be used to kill time. Actually, I have a hard time believing that we should do anything to kill time. There are times when we really have nothing to do or no time to start doing something, and we obviously want to do something instead of just waiting (waiting too is another way to kill time). But I want to be wiser about it. I want to use these short or long moments of “I’ve got nothing to do” with good stuff instead. with prayer for example. I am pretty sure there are many things we can do to use our time instead of killing it, even in a restful way.