To start seeing that the many events of our day, week, or year are not in the way of our search for a full life, but rather are the way to it is a real experience of conversion. We discover that cleaning and cooking, writing letters and doing professional work, visiting people and caring for others, are not a series of random events that prevent us from realizing our deepest self. These natural, daily activities contain with in them some transforming power that changes how we live. We made hidden passage from time lived as chronos to time lived as kairos. Kairos is a Greek word meaning the opportunity. It is the right time, the real moment, the chance of our lives. When our time becomes kairos, it frees us and opens us to endless new possibilities. Living kairos offers an opportunity for a profound change of heart.
--Henri Nouwen
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