{"id":11490,"date":"2026-01-30T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/?post_type=seetal_chile_poscht&#038;p=11490"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:10:07","slug":"liebe-freunde-der-seetal-chile-47","status":"publish","type":"seetal_chile_poscht","link":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/seetal_chile_poscht\/liebe-freunde-der-seetal-chile-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear friends of the seetal chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month I celebrated my 60th birthday. A number that can be unsettling. On the one hand, you hear people of this age say: \u00abI don't feel sixty at all!\u00bb On the other hand, many sentences start with: \u00abWhen I retire, then ...\u00bb Obviously, people at this age like to live either in the past or in the future - but less so in the present. I have made a conscious decision to avoid both attitudes and instead, in keeping with our theme for the year, to live in the present.<br>But how do we live in the present? How can God be recognised today? Israel learns something crucial in the desert: God is a God of today. The manna is enough for one day - not for tomorrow, not for next week. \u00abGive us today our daily bread.\u00bb Living in the present does not mean not planning for the future, but trusting God in the present.<br>We tend to live either in yesterday - in guilt, failure or nostalgia - or in tomorrow, characterised by worry, fear and the need for control. The desert brings us into the now. Because God is present in the now.<br>The Greek language recognises two terms for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos refers to measurable, continuous, quantitative time. Kairos refers to the qualitative, significant moment. Chronos is the time in which\u00a0<em>something<\/em>\u00a0happens. Kairos is the time when\u00a0<em>something decisive<\/em>\u00a0happens. Chronos describes a process, kairos an opportunity.<br>If we don't want to miss the important moments in life - and God's words - we have to live in the present. St Paul warns: \u00ab<em>So be careful how you live! Do not behave like foolish people, but behave wisely. Make the best possible use of your time (kairos), precisely because we are living in difficult times<\/em>\u00bb (Ephesians 5:15f New Testament).<br>We make the best use of our time by creating our own desert in the midst of chaos: a place where we can retreat daily, shed our constraints and dwell in the gentle, healing presence of our Lord.<br>We want to create space - in our hearts, in our everyday lives, in our church - so that God's voice can be heard, his love can be felt and his guidance remains recognisable.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","seetal_chile_poscht_ausgabe":[109],"class_list":["post-11490","seetal_chile_poscht","type-seetal_chile_poscht","status-publish","hentry","seetal_chile_poscht_ausgabe-seetal-chile-poscht-02-2026-c175cfe7-467f-4669-8c0b-90ae37d2691a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seetal_chile_poscht\/11490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seetal_chile_poscht"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/seetal_chile_poscht"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seetal_chile_poscht\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11491,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seetal_chile_poscht\/11490\/revisions\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"seetal_chile_poscht_ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seetal_chile_poscht_ausgabe?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}