Someones main problem may be loss of time. To him time is a trivial thing. He wastes his time without benefiting from it. This is a primary sin.

As a result of wasting time, he neither prays, reads nor has any spiritual thought. Such a person may say to himself: while fasting, i want to train myself to resist wasting my time and to make use of it.

How can this be done???

Save the lost time talking with people, in meetings and visits, in useless dicussions, and in reading magazines and newspapers and commenting on their contents. The time wasted listening to the radio, watching television, and doing other dispensible and recreational things, may be used to do spiritual work for God.

Everyone knows where he wastes his time. Thus he knows how to save his time. Let this then be a drill for us, God willing, while we fast.