Between the Clock and the Call

Chronos, Kairos, and the Grace of Waiting

By: Geoffrey Schmitt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

We live by the clock—but we are called by something deeper.

In Between the Clock and the Call, Geoffrey Schmitt explores the tension between Chronos, the measured time that structures our days, and Kairos, the lived time in which God meets us with grace. Drawing on Scripture, pastoral ministry, prison outreach, caregiving, aging, and long experience with waiting, this book invites readers to reconsider how time forms the soul.

Rather than offering techniques for managing time more efficiently, Schmitt invites readers to receive time as gift—to recognize that waiting can change us, that urgency can quietly erode trust, and that faithfulness is often shaped slowly, through presence rather than progress. From interruptions that reorient our lives to seasons once feared as wasted, the book traces how God works not only in decisive moments, but in long obedience and ordinary days.

Written in a reflective, accessible style, Between the Clock and the Call is a companion for anyone learning to live attentively in a hurried world. It is especially suited for those navigating seasons of waiting, aging, caregiving, vocational transition, or spiritual fatigue—and for all who long to live faithfully within the time they have been given.