Time - Chronos and Kairos

The nime is NOW. The greeks had two words for time. One of the words, chronos, had to do with what we think of as date and hour. The other word, kairos, had to do with the right moment, the proper timing. For Christians they should meet together in each daily action. The moment to live our beliefs is right now. Do we believe Christians are called to love each other and treat every other human as a neighbor? If so, we should be asking 'are we showing that love?' Do we believe that Christians are stewards of creation? If so we should be acting as caretakers of that same creation. Do we believe that Christians are called to spread the gospel message? Then we should be living our lives so that others may have hope.

We can put off our obligations to live as the one who we say we serve calls us to do. But we should not. The time for living our faith is now. Scheduling our activities and planning our tasks are good activities, but they should be directed at living in stewardship of the time we have been given. It is in those moments and that planning that we show whether we really live the faith we claim. The tasks and activities that mkae up our daily lives aren't interuptions, but the spaces and interstices where our belief shines through.

When the faith we profess doesn't shine through the activities, obligations, and daily tasks then it becomes clear that which we profess is not the same thing we beileve. The time is NOW. A living faith is not about what we've done in the past or intend in the future, but want we are doing.