Waiting followed by last minute panic, that about sums up my life.  But what to do in the waiting?  Jimmy Fallon clips and iPhone games are my usual go-to activities, but leave me feeling like I have wasted time.

I have an innate distrust of all things easy, so I always veer far away from anything I could get in "10 minutes or less."  This is especially true when it comes to anything spiritual.  How can it be valuable if it only costs me 1, 5, or 10 minutes?  It seems cheap and insincere, plus it usually takes me at least 10 minutes to get focused in the first place.

In the last few months I have had a change of heart, as you might have guessed by the title on the front page.  I still think that long periods of prayer, reading, and meditation are necessary for a healthy spiritual life, but I have found a place for the perfunctory, and it is in our breaks...