Kairos

Living in the in-between. Working to let my thoughts be thoughts, and consider implementation later. I'm thinking lentil soup for dinner.

The morning meeting

Exactly an hour

Registered as kairos,

Merged into rest-of-the-day thoughts

How and who and where

I might engage

Or be engaged.

This is not

As I imagined.

So much remains

To be seen;

So much

Remains

To be considered,

And yet

Time stretches

Like a rubber band

Kairos:

What will be,

Will be.

What will come,

Will come.

It will all take

As long as it takes.

Kairos.

If I still counted hours

For a friend who knows who she is.  Time with you is most always kairos.

If I still counted hours

Lunch last week

Would have counted

For two,

Maybe even three or four.

Sometimes things count

More than simply

Chronologically.

Now I am off

For an hour meeting,

Chronos

Or Kairos

Remains to be experienced.

Time

Friday and Saturday were a whirlwind and yet, not.  There was a lot of driving, a lot of discernment, a lot of clarity.  Way more than two days worth, if such things can even be measured.  And now... a plane to catch.

Some days feel

Like a week’s worth of living

All at once.

Chronos

Settles to kairos.

Time gentles down

Until

There is enough time;

There is

All the time in the world

And then some.

And then

There is a plane to catch.

One step at a time

Yep.  Soon she goes.  Every conversation feels deep and meaningful. Time is going faster than I remember. It's the kairos and chronos time distinction.  We are solidly in kairos now.

One step at a time

Even though we all

Would rather leap

To the ending

Or at least the middle.

One step at a time

To learn

What must be learned,

Incorporate it

Into all the steps

Made before,

All the steps

Yet to come.

One step at a time

Even this time

When so much is crammed

Into every moment,

Even more important

To recognize each step

As it comes.