Merry Christmas, Leon, wherever you are. It is dangerously easy to love everybody in general and nobody in particular. Particularity seems to threaten us. Specificity frightens us. In biblical Greek there are two words for time, which sound alike, but which are vastly different.
Chronos time is clock and calendar time, as in chronology.
Three or four years ago, after we had finished Wednesday night church supper and were just starting the Administrative Council Meeting, a stranger appeared at the church door. She did not look as if she belonged. We later found out that she was in her 40's, but she could have easily have passed for 60. Several of us saw her, but tried to ignore her in the hope she might go away. But she won.