The issue is time. Daylight Saving Time. Congress is again attempting to make it permanent. If made law, there will be no more falling back and springing forward on the calendar. We will forever prolong the day with an additional hour of artificially perceived sunlight in the evening and languish in the morning darkness.
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Something more metaphysical prompts me to oppose the permanent change. I believe that the nature of creation demands a certain respect for the natural rhythms of things. Time is not relative. There should be natural markers that precisely designate the maximum extent of light and darkness, called noon and midnight, respectively.
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Defined times become full of symbolism and meaning. Time metaphors are powerful and poetic expressions that reflect a higher-ordered reality.

When we mess with time, we lose touch with this higher reality. Making time permanently relative, even by a single hour, sends a message that we determine what time is.
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Growing up, we always referred to standard solar time as God’s time. It was the way He made it. During the spring, we borrowed an hour from God so that some might benefit from it. However, we always returned it to Him in the fall before Thanksgiving. At least the clock-setting rituals reminded us that God is the owner of time.
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Thus, when Congress votes to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, we put ourselves at the center of things. I don’t like the idea that noon will never really be high noon again. It will be whatever we said it is. The six o’clock Angelus prayer will never be prayed at the right time, but at the time we determine. In these times of extreme disorder, we need standards of stability, not relativity.

I know it might seem like a minor issue, but sometimes the little things can take on great importance. These issues leave me unsettled. It is best not to fool with God’s time.