I have been reflecting all week on kairos. It has really struck me that a perfect life seeks to capture kairos.
Finding kairos helps us to get away from all our “shoulds” and really focus on what we really want.
I stumbled on another passage, from Mark Freir of What If Enterprises, that profoundly touches on creating a perfect life:
Catch Kairos
Tempus Occasio! Seize the kairos moment!
Every human being is eternally valued. Every human being exists for only a certain amount of kronos time. Thousands of years before The Byrds’ popular “Turn! (To Everything There is a Season), King Solomon wrote: There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven. (Ecclesiastes) The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, uses the word kairos to capture the writer’s intent. The question is, “what will we do with our kronos moments?” There is something beyond kronos. There is a time that impacts kronos with such intensity that it can alter the very kronos of a person’s life. Every human being is wired with gifts and passions which afford opportunities to make unique impacts. While each of us writes the script of our life, we have be given extraordinary potential to make a difference. Tempus Occasio!
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In the span of every human being’s life there are kairos opportunities.
You may not be standing in the hallway of a boarding school with John Keating whispering, “Carpe Diem!” But you are standing on the precipice of other kairos opportunities. Tempus occasio!
You may not be a teenager who is seeking to understand the meaning of life. But you are invited to find purpose and power as you gaze into the face of the One who created you and calls you “Beloved,” offering you destiny-changing opportunities. Tempus occasio!
You may not be gazing into the pictures of those who lived a century ago. But you are invited to study the lives of those who have taken their kairos moments and transformed their world. Tempus occasio!
Are you ready for an adventure?
If you are listen real close, you can hear opportunity calling. Your legacy is ready to be written. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it?
Tempus! Hear it?
Tempus! Tempus occasio! Seize kairos!
Make your lives extraordinary.
Thank you Mark R. Freier.
A perfect life.
Tempus occasio!
