How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now

I enjoyed reading How to Inhabit Time. James K. A. Smith portrayed a fresh look into living as temporal beings while drawing on ancient ideas. Smith sets out to explore what it means to live in time. How to Inhabit Time is not a time management book. Smith unpacks a philosophy of living in the present. Rather than asking,""""Who am I?"""" or """"Where am I?"""" Smith proposes a more pertinent question is """"When am I?"""" We are the person we are here and now. \\nSmith provides meditations from Ecclesiastes to guide the book through a discussion on living in the past, future and present. As temporal beings, we are connected to both the past and future. These connections contain both benefits and challenges. As temporal beings, living faithfully now involves understanding our past and facing the future. Eternity is not something we look forward to; instead, eternal life is lived now. I believe this resonates well with the Gospel of John. \\nAt times, I struggled with his philosophical arguments and my lack of knowledge of who the ancient philosophers were. But this did not detract from my overall enjoyment of the book. \\nSmith has helped me to appreciate and live faithfully in the present.