Dear Leo,<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think you have to juggle quite as much as you think.\u00a0 True, your fledgling radio show takes time \u2013 you have to do enough background investigation to know what you\u2019re talking about.\u00a0 And true, your responsibilities in the Compass Chapter take time (very well spent, I would say, if you are following the Compass methodology). And, finally, it is also true that you need to devote the necessary time to your studies, since that is the primary arena of God\u2019s will for you while you are at college.\u00a0 But even so, you can change your perspective a bit.\u00a0 Instead of seeing them as three separate to-dos, why not meld them into a unity?\u00a0 Why not find a spicy angle on the subjects you study in class and bring them into your radio show (interviewing people, investigative reporting, etc\u2026)?\u00a0 And why not make what you see and do and learn in Compass the real \u201ccompass\u201d for all your activities, applying the Christian principles you learn there in your classes and your radio show, even if you do so only implicitly?\u00a0 Using your time well is important, but it takes creativity.<\/p>\n
Why don\u2019t you take a lesson from today\u2019s saint?\u00a0 Besides being a disciple of St Polycarp, who was a disciple of St John the Evangelist, intimate companion of Christ, and becoming the much-loved bishop of Lyons, Irenaeus single-handedly dealt a deathblow to Western Europe\u2019s greatest heretical threat to early Christianity: Gnosticism.\u00a0 I won\u2019t go into details on the contents of the heresy (plenty of pamphlets that you can find in health food stores and yoga centers can do that \u2013 it\u2019s making a comeback now in the New Age industry), but I will mention how he defeated it.<\/p>\n
First of all he learned all about it. Now that was no easy task, considering that every Gnostic master propagated his own customized version of the heresy.\u00a0 It took time, careful research, and intense mental acumen.\u00a0 Then he proceeded to write five full volumes outlining Gnosticism\u2019s fundamental principles and cataloguing its variations.\u00a0 After describing each principle and each variation, he would point out its philosophical strengths and weaknesses (mostly the latter) and then present the true teaching of Christ and the Apostles on the same issue.\u00a0 And every sentence was written in simple, clear, and pleasant prose, so that the humblest reader or listener could easily understand it.\u00a0 In addition to protecting Christians from the heresy\u2019s tantalizing errors, as soon as it was published, it put the poor Gnostics out of business, and, thanks be to God, brought a lot of them into the baptistery.<\/p>\n
He killed two birds with one stone, so to speak.\u00a0 If you try to do the same, and even more, I\u2019ll be willing to bet that you not only get more done and do it better (which will be of great benefit to the Kingdom), but you\u2019ll find yourself more at peace and more focused, no matter how big your to-do list gets.\u00a0 And that will rub off on everything else.<\/p>\n
Your devoted uncle,<\/p>\n
Eddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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