Carpe what?

I found this post via a friend on Facebook today and, as I was reading it, said to myself SO many times, “yes yes yes!  I agree!” that I had to share.

So, take a second.  Go read it.  (Yes, now, please!)

Parents:  if you really are able to be happy and treasure each and every moment, I applaud (and envy) you… but if you can relate to this article as well, then don’t fear – you’re not alone

A winner of a line?  “Clearly, Carpe Diem doesn’t work for me. I can’t even carpe fifteen minutes in a row…”  As my friend, Rebecca, wrote: I have this thought around 7:30 most evenings

And there’s this paragraph – also a sentiment that had me saying, “yes yes yes!  I agree!”
“Then there’s Kairos time. Kairos is God’s time. It’s time outside of time. It’s metaphysical time. It’s those magical moments in which time stands still. I have a few of those moments each day. And I cherish them.”

Like when Charlotte is “eh-eh-eh-ing” for something and I ask her to “use words” to tell me what she wants and she replies with “peas” (please)… every time.  And every time, it fills my heart and makes me grin – every time.

Like when I watch my daughter love on her babies and realize that, already, she is a kind and compassionate little person.

Or when it’s bedtime and we’ve finished our books, the lights are off and the bedtime cd isn’t yet playing… and I hold Charlotte in my arms, her head on my shoulder (sometimes Ellie or Puppy in her arms) and I sing to her.  Magically, I’m not out of tuneand, magically, I feel the day drift away so that it is just the two of us – completely at peace.

And as the author finishes (for she speaks for me perfectly):
“…at the end of the day, I don’t remember exactly what my kairos moments were, but I remember I had them. And that makes the pain of the daily parenting climb worth it.

If I had a couple Kairos moments during the day, I call it a success.

Carpe a couple of Kairoses a day.

Good enough for me.”