Kairos is not measurable.Kairos can sometimes enter, penetrate, break through chronos: the child at play, the painter at his easel, Serkin playing the Appassionata are in kairos. The saint in prayer, friends around the dinner table, the mother reaching out her arms for her newborn baby are in kairos.In kairos that part of us which is not consumed in the burning is wholly awake.
Madeleine L'Engle