Chronos and Kairos

The world tells me be here now, don't be late, watch the clock.

The refrain is punch the clock - in and out - 

no overtime please or maybe it's 

all your time is ours - overtime expected.

Live by the calendar, breath by the clock.

This frantic Chronos pace stifles the soul.

It sucks the energy 

causing a weary plod through the days and weeks.

But there is hope in your call to us God.
You call us to something better, more life giving in your Kairos time.
It is here you ask us to pause,
To be fully present to you.
It is here you remind us that the most important time is now.
You call us to be fully in the now.

It isn't that we are to forget our calendar or forget to be at the next place on time.
It is that you ask us not to focus there - the not yet,
But to return our focus to the now -
To those who are with us now
To you and your voice and vision now.

To live in Kairos is to adjust our vision,
To say to the world's Chronos cacophony - BE STILL.
 Kairos is to hear your words "Be still and know...."

As we live in Advent and it's time of anticipatory waiting,

We are given an opportune gift and invitation:
To journey in Kairos time

To find the vision you, God, have for us and the                                                                                          world  you have entrusted us with.

The question is...

Will we accept the invitation.