I spent time away from writing here
It's been a while
But I never stopped writing
I wrote on other blogs
I wrote on journals
I wrote on scratch papers
I wrote
To my soul's content
But there are days
Days when my hands won't write or type
When my mind can't form the words
that my heart wants to pour out
So I just stopped thinking altogether
Letting the feelings pass
Letting my thoughts dissolve
Letting time drift away
Where do they go?
Where does my time go?
Scrolling endlessly
doodling gibberish
spacing out
Where does time go?
Are you in the hands of a clock?
Are you in the battery of a watch?
Are you in the columns and rows of a calendar?
How can we grasp time?
It is passing
It is going
Every second, every minute, every day
Once it's gone
It's gone for good
A few weeks ago, I got to hear Pastor Mike give a Word about
time
The Greeks had two words for time
Kronos and
kairos
Two words for time
Kronos, from which our word chronology came from,
is the time of calendars and clocks
The numbers in the seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years
Time that can be measured
Kairos, on the other hand, means the right and opportune moment
Seasons of love and loss, joy and sorrow, giving and receiving
Time neither bound by numbers nor our concept of time
Moments that cuts through the monotony of our kronos
Moments when God gives you a glimpse of Himself—of heaven here on earth
Like that time when you saw your father wipe a tear from his laughing eyes after your brother won first place in an art competition
The time when your mother walked into your room, pizza box in hand, as you lay in bed crying over a boy
The time when you had a long night at work and a stranger gave up his bus seat for you
The time when you got to praise and worship with your family—with tears in your eyes and grief in your heart
The time when your sinful heart—broken and shattered—encountered grace and let Jesus in
These are moments that happened at just the right time
Revel in them
Sink yourself in them
Don't miss what God is doing in your life
at this moment
in time
"With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness." (from 2 Peter 3:8-9, The Message)
"Hour by hour I place my days in your hand..." (from Psalm 31:14-18, The Message)
