OK – so getting your life and affairs organised is going to take something – and its NOT just time (Chronos). I am guessing the answer was a “No” to the question?! We can also see that clock running out and are never be able to get things completed and accomplished!Ĭhronos leads to “death” or restriction, stultifying excuses, inaction, laziness, depression and “I can’t”. This is our most common, everyday thinking. The (time) Chronos to get stopped by the excuses which are time (tick tock) or the practical challenges and aspects of how you can’t do this. In another way – it is (time) Kairos to take it on, time to get the help and support that you need to get this job done and not get stopped but take on what you know is the right thing to do Ready to transform your life into what you want, not put up with what you have but that no longer serves you. Ready to stop procrastinating and “thinking about” things and turning it into action. Ready to have the conversations that you have been putting off. You are here because on some level or another you are ready. It is not a coincidence that you are here reading this website! This means – “you are ready, the timing is now perfect to take action.”Īs you have already be drawn to this website, this page post or this whole conversation, I would suggest that Kairos is saying to your conscious (or sub-conscious) that it is TIME to take action! In the first Greek translations of the Bible (originally from the Sanskrit), each use of the word ‘time’ in the above passage is rendered as kairos, not chronos. “ To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:Ī time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,Ī time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, Why did the artist fashion you? For your sake, stranger, and he set me up in the porch as a lesson.įrom the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament: Chapter 3: Verses 1-15, which is frequently used at funeral services, it speaks to the Kairos of the situation – the spirituality side of life. Why do you stand on tip-toe? I am ever running.Īnd why do you have a pair of wings on your feet? I fly with the wind.Īnd why do you hold a razor in your right hand? As a sign to men that I am sharper than any sharp edge.Īnd why does your hair hang over your face? For him who meets me to take me by the forelock.Īnd why, in Heaven’s name, is the back of your head bald? Because none whom I have once raced by on my winged feet will now, though he wishes it sore, take hold of me from behind. Who and whence was the sculptor? From Sikyon.Īnd who are you? Time who subdues all things. It had the following epigram carved into it: Statues of him could be found all across the Greek peninsula, but the most famous stood in now-ruined Sikyon. Kairos, on the other hand, was a young man, lithe and handsome. That’s Chronos in all his gruesome depravity. Take a look at Francisco de Goya’s ‘Saturn Devouring His Son’, to the right. It takes away everything you have and then it eats you too. Chronos, or Saturn to the Romans, is the stuff that kills you. His resemblance to the Grim Reaper is not accidental. A weary, bent-backed old man with a long grey beard, carrying a scythe and an hourglass. The Greeks liked to personify just about everything, and you’re probably familiar with the personification of Chronos: just think of “old Father Time”.