Thought for the weekend

One of the many quotes I have saved from the pages of The Christian Century (regrettably without more detailed citation than that) is one from an Egyptian Coptic monk named Ruwals el-Anthony, who said,
There's nothing wrong with microwaves or mobile phones - they save time. But God will ask you what you have done with the time that was saved.

As we are part of a culture with more "labor-saving" devices than ever before and as we start our weekend filled with "free time", it might be instructive to think about what we have done with all the time we have saved. If our answer has just been to cram more things into our days, then perhaps we have missed the boat.