Dedicating Leisure Time to God

The past couple days I have been reading "Holiness for Housewives (and other working women)" by Dom Hubert Van Zeller (Sophia Institute Press, 1997) This book was originally written in the 1950s but this more recent edition has been updated for today's world.

One of the topics was how best to spend one's leisure time:

"What, then, should be the procedure regarding leisure? Must I use it all for God? The answer is: you must be ready to use it all for God. In fact, He will not ask you to spend all of your free time in prayer or on your knees doing the Stations of the Cross. What God wants is your willingness."

This goes back to trusting God, to turning one's life over to Him and believing that He will help you to make the most of it. All of our time is a gift from God and the way that we use it should be our gift back.