Good morning…
After watching the captivating video in yesterday’s post, many of you responded, “Surprisingly, I was moved to tears.”
God lives in our in-between spaces. Between stirring a bit and being fully awake. Between standing far off and accepting a hug. Between ending this thing and beginning what’s next. Between noticing beauty and being filled with gratitude. Between sharing a meal and getting up from the table.
Between wondering and knowing. Between leaving and arriving. Between needing and receiving. Between hurting and healing. Between inspiration and action. Between “Dear God” and “Amen.”
God’s Spirit is alive between a blank journal page and an honest release. Between being dry-eyed and shedding tears. Between surrendering all and living liberated. Between laying down and falling asleep. God lives in our in-between spaces.
One of my good friends at work laughs at me when I say, “In my Day-Timer, I just try to schedule one commitment in the morning and one commitment in the afternoon.” Teach a class. Meet with a person. Attend a scheduled meeting. I limit evening commitments to focus time on our family.
Then I let God surprise me in the space in-between. Prep time. Clean up time. Responding to emails. Phone calls or texts just to check in. Chance meetings. Sharing prayer concerns. Fresh inspired thoughts. God brings divine, unexpected blessings into my in-between.
Like now. A question pops in my mind. I google my way to a fascinating answer. The ancient Greeks had two words for time: chronos and kairos. The former refers to chronological or sequential time, while the latter signifies the opportune time. While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature. Kairos celebrates each moment of indeterminate time as one in which everything important happens.
I do my best to attend well to my chronos commitments, morning, afternoon, and evening. Above and beyond, I live each day in a sacred way: “I am a kairos kind of girl!”
Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day… He’s giving everyone space and time to change (2 Peter 3:8a, 9, MSG).
…Sue…
P.S. Just now, I returned from a walk and talk around the horse farm with a forever friend. She said, “I read today’s post and right away thought, ‘Isn’t our time on earth all in-between time, between coming from God and returning to God?” I think she’s right. Between being born into this broken world and returning to heaven healed whole, our entire lifetime is just a twinkle in God’s eye. In every single moment, the Spirit of God is present and active, seeking to redeem everything and everyone.
