Making a Career of Nothing

My notes from Cornelius Plantinga’s Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin:

To what extent are we making a career of Nothing (wandering through malls, killing time, making small talk, watching tv until we know the characters better than our own children)?

This sin robs the community of  our gifts and energies and shapes our lives into a yawn at the God and Savior of the world.

“The person who will not bestir herself, the person who hands herself over to Nothing, in effect says to God: you have made nothing of interest and redeemed no one of consequence, including me.”