Yup, it's that subject again. I write about tinkeritis every once in a while. In case you have never heard of it before, "tinkeritis" is that mental illness that plagues so many people today (especially modernists) with the delusion that if we just fiddle with things a little bit more, then we will fix everything and make all our problems go away.
It appears that many of our politicians here in these USA have been suffering from this for quite a while, and (though it should be otherwise) Catholic clergy are certainly not immune to it. The most recent evidence of it is seen in the whole "daylight saving time" thing-a-ma-jiggy. God created the world a certain way, and we are supposed to care for it and improve it. That does not, however, allow for us to try to play God.
I would never say that the daylight saving time practice was, in itself, like playing God, but it certainly was an example of tinkeritis. "Let's flip our clocks back and forth a couple times a year so we can squeeze out one more hour of sunlight". Really? I truly wish I could have been around the very first time anyone proposed the idea to know what that would have felt like. We are so used to it that we cannot imagine that experience.
Now they want to stop flipping the clocks and have us stay on one time schedule (I think this is the third time they tried this). Honestly, I hope that we just stay with it this time and refuse to fall back into the flipping time changes again {pun barely intended}. Whatever it may be, we need to find a way to settle and avoid the impression that if we just tinker with things again we can fix it.
It is not really a matter of whether we change the clocks back and forth, or whether we leave them (it might take some getting used to, but I am willing to have the sun rise at 8:30am on January 1st). It is a matter of whether we view the world God gave us as good for us. It is important for us to find some humility and ask the Lord to teach us how to accept this world we live in, and ask Him to show us what we are supposed to change. Let us be good stewards of what God has given us, and not seek to be lords of our own existence.