“Kairos!” KAAAAAIIIIIRRRRROOOOOSSSSSS!” Thalia imagined herself sitting on a wall of fieldstone, trying to catch falling oak leaves. “Chronos.” Nią looked at the clock. Calliope drummed fingers on her cheek. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job.
Today’s love letter is full of pearls... Both on the page and in the hyperlinks! The description of the retreat activity with Amy is exquisitely accurate.
Trusting that the right card would “choose” us was a huge part of the process and remembering the session debrief in my mind, I can hear the joy of conversation of both giving and receiving... Gratitude 🙏🏼 experienced in real time for the gift of a hand crafted message... I have read and reread my card and will revisit it often.
Also, there are 58 colored hearts 💗❤️💛💚♥️ on the cover of my card. Heart grass, leaves, and a big red heart in the center of my Joy Tree!
“Find joy and let it lead your life...” Which is the message on the front of the card and written within the boundaries of the base of the tree and under the big heart.
The inside is full of inspirational messages and are you ready for this? 🥁🥁🥁
61 Golden 🌟 stars, which just so happens to be the number of stars I’ve managed to accumulate as related to years on this spinning rock we all call home...
“Everything you need, your courage, strength, compassion, love, everything you need is already within you.” -One of the messages inside the card
My message to everyone and a quote from my book is as follows:
“Hidden within each of us is everything we need to achieve anything we can imagine.” -Bobby Kountz
Typist, thanks for being YOU and trusting “The Girls” to help you share the message that only YOU can share... 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼
What a delightful post! I’m prone to offer up cheeky comments on occasion, with no ill effect intended. I believe that is presumptuous at best. Unaware of others’ life stories?
Today my hope is to acknowledge typist’s, paintist’s, writist’s thinking and inspiring us. And I’ll offer a kairos/chronos thought. Long ago I learned that chronos was man’s time while kairos was God’s time! If I find myself planning activity to help others or open my heart to become more empathic, not sure of what either activity will lead to, I consider that God’s time. I’m not in charge of outcomes, only my efforts and intentions.
Building those new shelves for the master bedroom closet? Chronos in my book! Lines can be blurred. A project to lower/replace shelves for a neighbor confined to a wheelchair seems to fit kairos. But my working up a schedule to blend in with my other doings takes on a chronos element. 🤷🏽
You poses several good points for our notions of kairos and chronos: why not choose “Yes, and..” to frame our thoughts? Then, step back before calling time inside the fence “work” (our automatic chronos ideation) if using “play” is more accurate?
I’m delighted to recognize the “assignment” to consider our own labeling of self and others. Ignoring our inner critic’s carving up our self worth. Our imputing motives to others when in fact we’re unaware of that person’s circumstances? Learning new ways to “be” in this present moment.
Thanks so much to Gail and the entire 3mm community.
Bracelet: “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples” 😳
(They don't all have to be humor.) (Yes, Gary, most of them are supposed to be humorous. Hush!)
Today’s love letter is full of pearls... Both on the page and in the hyperlinks! The description of the retreat activity with Amy is exquisitely accurate.
Trusting that the right card would “choose” us was a huge part of the process and remembering the session debrief in my mind, I can hear the joy of conversation of both giving and receiving... Gratitude 🙏🏼 experienced in real time for the gift of a hand crafted message... I have read and reread my card and will revisit it often.
Also, there are 58 colored hearts 💗❤️💛💚♥️ on the cover of my card. Heart grass, leaves, and a big red heart in the center of my Joy Tree!
“Find joy and let it lead your life...” Which is the message on the front of the card and written within the boundaries of the base of the tree and under the big heart.
The inside is full of inspirational messages and are you ready for this? 🥁🥁🥁
61 Golden 🌟 stars, which just so happens to be the number of stars I’ve managed to accumulate as related to years on this spinning rock we all call home...
“Everything you need, your courage, strength, compassion, love, everything you need is already within you.” -One of the messages inside the card
My message to everyone and a quote from my book is as follows:
“Hidden within each of us is everything we need to achieve anything we can imagine.” -Bobby Kountz
Typist, thanks for being YOU and trusting “The Girls” to help you share the message that only YOU can share... 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙌🏼
Gratefully yours,
Bobby-
What a delightful post! I’m prone to offer up cheeky comments on occasion, with no ill effect intended. I believe that is presumptuous at best. Unaware of others’ life stories?
Today my hope is to acknowledge typist’s, paintist’s, writist’s thinking and inspiring us. And I’ll offer a kairos/chronos thought. Long ago I learned that chronos was man’s time while kairos was God’s time! If I find myself planning activity to help others or open my heart to become more empathic, not sure of what either activity will lead to, I consider that God’s time. I’m not in charge of outcomes, only my efforts and intentions.
Building those new shelves for the master bedroom closet? Chronos in my book! Lines can be blurred. A project to lower/replace shelves for a neighbor confined to a wheelchair seems to fit kairos. But my working up a schedule to blend in with my other doings takes on a chronos element. 🤷🏽
You poses several good points for our notions of kairos and chronos: why not choose “Yes, and..” to frame our thoughts? Then, step back before calling time inside the fence “work” (our automatic chronos ideation) if using “play” is more accurate?
I’m delighted to recognize the “assignment” to consider our own labeling of self and others. Ignoring our inner critic’s carving up our self worth. Our imputing motives to others when in fact we’re unaware of that person’s circumstances? Learning new ways to “be” in this present moment.
Thanks so much to Gail and the entire 3mm community.