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Time. (spirituality cafe).


"Spending time "Spending Time" is the first single released by Christian artist Stellar Kart.

The lyrics describe the band members desire to spend "more time with God". "Sometimes it’s a real struggle to spend time with God.
. Investing time, saving time, borrowing time, beating time, hoarding time, defying time, managing time, needing time, lacking time, squandering squan·der  
tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders
1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste.

2.
 time, buying time, wasting time, gaining time, passing time, using time, taking time, killing time.

"So many metaphors for time. So many ways we construct it. As if it's one more finite finite - compact  and measurable commodity, at our disposal to be wisely invested for maximum return [and] in order to have more of it, somehow trick the universe into giving us a few extra hours.

"How utterly ambivalent am·biv·a·lent  
adj.
Exhibiting or feeling ambivalence.



am·biva·lent·ly adv.

Adj. 1.
 we are about time. It is at once our most precious asset and our worst enemy." (Marlene Schiwy, Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Matters; Sorin, 2002)
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Publication:U.S. Catholic
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2002
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