Holy Cow Waste in India

I was invited today to a prayer service at a friend’s home who is in hospice care. As we were sharing our reflections, one of the participants recalled a saying about “wasting time with God”. With all my talk on these posting about ‘waste’ I found this interesting. I started to think about these recent reflections, especially the one on Waste Management. I guess wasting time with God could be called Holy Waste.

I knew some of the participants and some I did not. One of the things I did realize is that all six of the participants had, at one time or another been in the seminary or in the religious life. Only one, a religious sister, remained so, but at some point in their sharing all, except me, had mentioned experience in the seminary or religious life. But I too had been a student in the Society of Jesus, a religious order, for a number of years after high school.

When I mentioned this observation someone asked me what it meant. I said I did not know, it was just an observation. Perhaps God knows the meaning of this observation but for me making it was enough. In this case what it means really does not matter or add to or subtract from the observation.

Without interpretation this observation, the common connection of seminary and religious life formation, might be a waste, but maybe a Holy Waste.

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