Think about this....

If you added up the time spent--the minutes and hours in cars or trains or buses going to shops to buy Christmas things, if you added to that all the time in queues, shopping, returning, and added to that the time decorating inside and out, and added the time making too many cookies, cakes and candy,  and compared that time with the time you spent in prayer this Advent, what would you be thinking about your spiritual life?

We waste so much time on the exterior-and not enough on the interior.