1/29/2024 0 Comments Kairos moment statue vancouver![]() ![]() De Wachter is a Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, and has taught at the Royal Academy Schools, Goldsmiths College, Brighton University, Newcastle University among other places. Her book ‘Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration’, published by Phaidon, explores the phenomenon of collaboration in the visual arts and its potential in society at large. She is a frequent contributor to Frieze magazine, and her writing has featured in numerous publications and exhibition catalogues. Bradley Kronz and Jessi Reaves (Waiting for Boots) at Dorich House Museum, On Collaboration is a conversation staged within the show itself and led by Ellen Mara De Wachter, author of Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration (Phaidon, 2017) with guest speakers Cullinan–Richards and Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski.Įllen Mara De Wachter is a writer and curator based in London. But this was (finally) the moment for me to get the devotion written.Inspired by the collaborative nature of the exhibition 31 Candles: Jessi Reaves feat. All of this was written as my housemate slept in. Thank you for never leaving us and for being our consistency in a world that seems to spin out of control more often than not. Thank you for working on our behalf and for continually inviting us into Kairos moments along the way. In times of frustration or anxiety, may we learn to lean into You and to find hope knowing that You never slumber nor sleep You are never sitting idly by. Thank you for being everything in between as well. Lord we thank You for being the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. Take heart and remember that even when things fall apart and make no sense, God IS working in those places!! He will never stop moving and working and bringing about redemptive moments for us. There are so many intricately incredible moments that we miss when we get frustrated about things going wrong or being late in our chronos timelines. When we are learning to hear from God and focusing our attention on what God is speaking to us, we must also be watching what is happening around us. In the moment that our technology wrinkled up our chronos schedule, the Lord was unveiling a beautiful kairos moment. The video we were watching at KH lagged and as the wondrous Sam fixed things up, Zoey whispered to me that she had actually met some people who were Indigenous! I asked if she would be willing to share later on and she nodded… I hadn’t planned ahead to have Zoey come up and share. As our own church family at Lifespring, and also as a member of the collective Church.Īt the same time Rodney was preaching about living out the call to Truth and Reconciliation through the Grace of God, Zoey (his eldest) was standing up in front of Kidz Harbour sharing about the time their family met and had dinner with some Indigenous friends in Vancouver. On Sunday I was struck by the fact that we seem to be living in an especially significant Kairos Moment as a church. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the last time I was writing a devotional for LifeSpring, I was writing about how important it is to recognize the season that we’re in. Biblically, kairos would be used to talk about a “moment” or a “season” such as a “harvest time”. The word kairos is used in the New Testament 86 and chronos is used 54 times. Although we function in chronological time, our awareness to these special, how-in-the-world-did-that-just-happen moments needs to increase as well! I can totally imagine a little Laura insisting that chronos time is keeping her from playing longer and that it is not for her and that she prefers kairos time… and, to be honest, grown up Laura often feels the same way!Īs the people of God, we have a special mission to join him in … and that will often require us also partnering up with his timing. Understanding this distinction with how to measure time would have been dangerous knowledge for me to have as a child. In essence, chronos is quantitative and kairos is qualitative. ![]() While Chronos time meant sequential or chronological time. Kairos time meant the right, critical, or opportune moment. The Ancient Greeks had two words for time. I’ve been thinking about it and praying about it for literal days and not until half an hour before my alarm did I suddenly wake up with everything clicking into place.Īs annoying as it has been, I can see how the Lord was using this moment as another practical lesson/teaching moment for me about kairos and chronos time… but more importantly, about how he is working in the midst of time. ![]() I keep coming back to kairos time versus chronos time lately…Įven in writing this devotional, it’s taken f o r e v e r to write. ![]()
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