The course load or client load, the list of chores, projects, and assignments, can get us going before dawn and keep us going after dusk. But in all our efforts to accomplish more, we need the light of divine Spirit, which can only be gained through prayer.
Before his conversion, St. Paul had to be the classic case of someone going at top speed in the wrong direction. His experience also shows that such a life can be turned around through Christ, Truth.
We're bombarded with images, slogans, and songs about love. But it takes something more than media formulas to maintain solid friendships between men and women, children and parents, wives and husbands, between neighbors, associates, and nations.