  urlLink cadence90 : "...We had an old missal -- a book that shows the services and readings for each day of the year in a Catholic church -- hanging around the house when I was growing up. At the top of each page, it said one of two things: ORDINARY TIME or EXTRAORDINARY TIME. I was never really sure what it meant but I liked it.
Later as I grew up I stumbled across the Greek notions of kairos and chronos. Chronos is ordinary time. It's what your watch measures. Kairos is extroardinary time -- those expansive, luminous moments that change everything. It's a minute that lasts an hour, or a day that lasts a minute. When you have a baby you step onto a big unfurling ribbon of baby time.
Night and day run together; what day it is hardly registers. Every day lasts a week, except that suddenly two months have gone by and your baby doesn't fit in newborn-size diapers anymore. I realize I generally know what day it is now. And this morning putting my shoes on I bend down and see my watch peeking out from under the nightstand. I fish it out and put it on. We have crash landed in Ordinary Time again. " 
