I HAPPENED UPON a friend the other day, and as friends do we immediately began to catch up. It was good to spend time with someone I trust! Friends often share the good, bad, and ugly, so it went with our conversation. After the good, we touched on concerns about money, our jobs, difficult people, the government, you name it; we dumped it all on the table. Too soon, we had to part, leaving very little solved and feeling no better about the now or the future; but we at least realized that our problems are common.
That night a snippet of ancient wisdom came to mind: “He makes everything beautiful in His time.” In a dream that followed, I saw a "slide show" in my head (which I now think of as a holy power point)—it was a rewind of hard moments I’ve endured, tense conversations recently, stress looming in the not-so-distant future, sad moments from my past that cannot be changed, and other things that I frankly worry about.
The quote was an echo from Solomon's Ecclesiastes. It is no easier to understand than the sentences before and after it. And one word stood out as different: His. Today I find my nerd self focused on that word, for it makes all the difference.
In the cover photo I took to illustrate my point, there are no beautifully colored leaves on the branches because they aren't there at this time of the year. Experience tells us they WILL be there. We want things to be beautiful now—when WE want them. We can wish, hope, pray, and even try to force it, but we will fail if it isn’t HIS time.
I wish I could say that I always fully trust in His timing. I want to see it now. I want to be someone who the people that love and have confidence in me think I am right now. I want a stress-free life now. And though I am told by my Creator I can have that life right now if I’m looking at events as I should be, there are plenty of days when I can’t see it.
So, today I will remind myself (and you) to enjoy every moment of the life we were given at that moment and know that when the right time comes, the perfection we see at that moment will have been so worth the wait.
Copyright 2023, Gary Landerfelt, MyPericope.com
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