The Unknown Continues Biding Time

The rhythm of life for a kingdom dweller puts chronos in service of kairos, the cyclical in service of the directional, the calendar in service of the kingdom. ... As we submit our anarchy to a rhythm, in a sort of earthy, mystical way, all of life is lived lucidly, intentionally, and to the glory of God. Every washing becomes a baptism; every eating a Communion. Every sleeping becomes a dying; every rising a resurrection.

- Kenneth Gottman

from Ministry and Mission

Chronos: the chronological progression of time
Kairos: a time set apart, an opportune time, the time between times, the time when god acts

So...as time passes chronologically, normal days lived in, lived out, we exist in ordinary time...but what we must do and remember to do is live the kairos. Our time is god-time. God-time can be set aside, intentional, such as sitting at the counter with the bible and a cup of coffee. But god-time should be all time, too, or at least we should be aware of how god is moving through, working through, acting through our ordinary time.

We are wrapping up Ordinary Time, something that many christians who are unused to a liturgical calendar are not even used to thinking about. Ordinary Time, the sundays after pentacost, where we're not actively preparing for anything. We just are living our lives.

Ordinary Time, what we live all the time, Ordinary Time when we need to learn to find the spiritual...find the mystery. I can feel my days start to get busier as the actual daylight drifts away. Work days are longer, class will be more intense, community group begins again. Life picks up and time seems to speed up.

It's the time when looking for the kairos seems most difficult. But it's there, in all that is ordinary. Ordinary takes on a mystery when we remember that all ordinary time consists of the moments between time when god is actively working in our lives.

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