kairos in chronos
God is here
Immanuel
with us
we give seasons to
the coming and
arrival
which is fine for giving color
and collective
things to do
but the coming and arriving
and the leaving and
returning
all
are with us
which we might have better understand
when we were forebears
and the child
be
in the painting with all others wearing
dress of the time
the child depicted with all the miracles as well as
soteriology
provding
child
grown-up
teacher
crucified
and
God
and aren’t they all together all the eras
all the ages
that we own on our own
plus
forever thinking
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(x = space)
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Allowancing
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Should the
Spirit lead
Should an angel say
So that we rest into
Advice
From listening
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Pointers of direction
For the way
This is a response from prayer
Or simple stillness
Being still
Into the world, into night
Into the quiet blue of day
x
Whatever time
To step outside
To step inside
Creation’s bands
The movement of the universe
Let it ride
For us
For a while
x
We rest within
We rest without
We try to listen with disinterest
(not un-interest)
For a while
x
If we get something
It’s a gift
Treat with care
Treat with confidence
Now get up
Carrying the lightness of a gift
Into the world again
Into time
(kairos into chronos)
Into hours of the day and night
Into chores
Into decisions
Into life
Into peace
Or needs be war
x
Not worrying a win
But plainly things are better
If no new rewards
Maybe a win for all
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Photo by Aaron Huber on Unsplash
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(x = space)
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Doctrine Inside a Mask
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Grace is sufficient
It is miracle
It is salvation
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It is surprise
Totally untimed
Kairos, never chronos
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So what shall we have?
Salvation’s disguise
They seek it here
x
They seek it there
We have a
Pimpernel
x
A small, red flower
Maybe a Z against the wall
A bag of gold
x
Tossed through
My window by
Valentine or Robin Hood
x
Or with Meg
Atop the seeing stone
After cosmos-saving
x
Or while the saving
Happens (I doubt that
grace is averse to
en media res)
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Stories for our souls,
Enough awareness
For our
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Noticing in time
To say thank you
And our hero’s
Gone,
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Because
Another rescue’s
Needed there
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the Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L’Engle
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…Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.…
(Second Corinthians 8-10)
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All Souls, a Poem
A remembrance of those who are far on
And yet, like Patrick’s breastplate, who
Are over and around us
Above, below, on either side
We are not alone this day; we are
Accompanied
By those whose earthly, counted time
Is done, who
Live in kairos now
Kairotic time, the time of God
Souls, the spirits
of un-never-lived, live
On, live now, live well
Until unmeasured time
Without measure
Ends
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