I have always been very conscious of my clock-time. Often, I asked myself: Can I still double my years? When I was thirty, I said: I can easily live another thirty! When I was forty, I mused, Maybe I am only halfway! Today I can no longer say that, and my question has become: How am I going to use the few years left to me?
All these concerns about our clock-time come from below. They are based on the presupposition that our chronology is all we have to live. But looked upon from above, from God’s perspective, our clock-time is embedded in the timeless embrace of God. Looked upon from above, our years on earth are not simply chronos, but kairos—another Greek word for time—which is the opportunity to claim for ourselves the love that God offers us from eternity to eternity.
--Henri Nouwen
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