Madeleine In Kairos

This excerpt from a 1979 Christianity Today interview with Madeleine L'Engle might comfort some of us who are grieving her loss:
The two words I like are kairos and chronos. We live in chronology. Kairos is eternity, which has nothing whatever to do with time. An artist is free to know kairos. The person who prays is free to know kairos. We are literally free from time ... Eternity, in which we will live ultimately, has nothing to do with time at all. It isn't endless time. It isn't time going on and on and on. It's a quality that we don't know, because we are in chronos. But we have these fleeting glimpses of kairos ...
Now she sees it face to face.