A 'Kairos' timing!

I watched this ten months old infant moving around in the room by bottom shuffling. He attempted to go on to his knees couple of times. Seeing this, his mother offered him a chair, as a support to get up. He surprised all of us by getting up using the chair as his support. He was ready to stand and he needed a support.

An elderly couple who dropped in to visit talked about their daughter's marriage. They seemed anxious about the delay in finding a suitable boy. They were concerned that their daughter is also in no hurry to get married. 

That is when I remembered the story of this child getting up to stand.   

There was a synchronisation between the child's intent and and the mother's instinct.

Anna and I are too in this state looking for a synchronisation. Following my surgery, both of us have been feeling that this is the right time to think about our future. How shall we live, work and fulfil our calling in the years ahead!

We have begun to look for promptings from our circumstances to choose the direction!

The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, in chapter three verse two, mentions a list of activities for which an opportune time is appointed, by God of our lives!

To wait for this appropriate time of Kairos, is contrary to the attitude of 'anxious striving' that we see around us. Many people go by a paradigm that what they cannot get now, will be lost for ever. They cannot but believe that in the prevailing competitive culture.

A doctor who had to wait for three years to get into a post graduate training course, told me that this waiting helped him to discover a purpose for his life. While he was waiting for his training opportunity  working in a mission hospital, he was able to discern his calling. He is serving the same hospital as a physician for the last thirty five years.  

There is a timing, a synchronisation, and providence  at work in our lives. 

The boy who had five loaves and two fish, which Jesus of Nazareth used to feed the five thousand men, is a good example of this kairos timing. Jesus was seeking for food and the boy was present ready to give away his food.

When God's intent and our instinct converge, it becomes the opportune time !

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)