I experienced it in my own seminary years … Everywhere there was a tendency to live, act and think as if the real life is not here but there, not now but later. Community develops where we experience that something significant is taking place where we are. It is the fruit of the intimate knowledge that we are together, not because of a common need – such as to learn a language – but because we are called together to him who is greater than these needs.

I do not know if I will be alive tomorrow, next week or next year. Therefore today is always more important than tomorrow. We have to be able to say each day, “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad.”