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Kairos Moment Art

Been awhile since that last blog, and while I don’t feel like I’m writing two Eikon blogs in a row, well.. seems I am. There’s more varied things coming soon though. Promise.

For now though, I figured I’d share a shirt design I developed for Eikon. To really get it though, It might need a little elaboration. It’s based on a diagram of a “kairos moment” which is something we as a community have been using as a tool for understanding how God can more effectively interact in our lives and what that looks like as a process.

For starters, the word ‘kairos’ is a Greek word for time. Specifically in this instance, it’s not referencing time as a whole but moreso the moments in time that God enters into our stories and interacts with us in ways that cause us to rethink ourselves, our lives, and our relationships in a way that alters us in some way shape or form for the better.

We all know these moments: they’re often prayerful, but at the very least they’re honest and reflective. It’s when you’re sitting around in a restaurant and the boisterous patron to your right is getting on your nerves, yet amidst that, somehow you allow it to stop irking you in favor of trying to love and understand this person better, and it brings you peace. Or perhaps your life has shielded you from the plight of another kind of person, and once coming in contact with them, you are changed into someone that not only cares more for those kind of people, but strives to find justice for them amidst the chaos. Or, more personally, maybe you’re taking photos, and you start to see how your craft can be used to help people by bringing light to their struggles, and you find purpose within that realization. It’s those moments that the kairos moment diagram aims to help us analyze and maximize better.

Click here to see an image of the basic Kairos Diagram. The horizontal line at the top represents our path, and the circle intersecting from below represents the thought process we ideally will go through to fully live within and embrace these moments. Along the circle, we encounter steps of observation, reflection, discussion with others, making a plan on how this can further shape us, being held accountable, and living it out through action.

The art design of the shirt aims to capture this process and the beauty that can spring from it. We’re having one printed for each current member of the community, and they’ll be given out this Saturday. I’m looking forward to it.

Oh, and if you’re not a part of Eikon, but really dig the concept and would love to have the shirt for yourself, I’m sure we’re not above putting in an order for a second run of these if there’s demand for them. We’d probably sell them for $15 with all profits and proceeds going to the church and the work its doing within our local communities – suburban and urban alike. Shoot me a comment or an email if you’re interested, so I can gauge what demand might look like.