"...For real absolute waste
of time you have to go to prayer. I reckon that more than 80 percent of our
reluctance to pray consists precisely in our dim recognition of this and our
neurotic fear of wasting time, of spending part of our life in something that
in the end gets you nowhere, something that is not merely non-productive,
non-money-making, but is even non-creative, it doesn't even have the
justification of art and poetry. It is an absolute waste of time, it is a
sharing into the waste of time which is the interior life of the Godhead. God
is not in himself productive or creative. Sure he takes time to throw off a
creation, to make something, to achieve something, but the real interior life
of the Godhead is not in creation, it is in the life of love which is in the
Trinity, the procession of Son from Father and of the Spirit from this
exchange. God is not first of all our creator or any kind of maker, he is love,
and his life is not like the life of the worker or artist but of lovers wasting
time with each other uselessly. It is into this worthless activity that we
enter in prayer. This, in the end, is what makes sense of it..."
God Still Matters, by Herbert
McCabe OP, p. 75. I have previously reflected on McCabe here.
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