Tick-tock.
Every minute, hour, day is precisely predictable in its timing.
But I am finding that my watch is not predictable of God's timing. What should go fast ends up slower than anticipated, what is to be a slow process speeds by me like the speed of light.
Tick-tock. The time on my watch is still accurate, but the timing of God is on a pace of its own.
Take our adoption process, for example. We applied in October and instead of waiting many months to take the compulsory adoption parenting course, we already have that checked off our to do list. One month after applying we quickly found ourselves sitting in a room with other prospective parents, many of whom had applied much earlier in Spring. Now we have thrust ourselves into completing a mountain of documents required to complete our dossier, months ahead of what we anticipated. It's like God was simply waiting for us to apply already, so that he could get the ball rolling.
Then we wait... Not on our watch, but on God's. We wait for our homestudy to be complete, we wait for the dossier to be prepared and sent to the country yet to be determined. And we wait some more... for a match to be made with our family so we can be united with our new children.
We anticipate a predictably slow adoption process, but who knows, we are already further ahead than we anticipated to be by Spring 2013. God-speed can mean both miraculously fast, tryingly slow, or simply unknown... and that's OK. Timing is everything, especially God's.
Every minute, hour, day is precisely predictable in its timing.
But I am finding that my watch is not predictable of God's timing. What should go fast ends up slower than anticipated, what is to be a slow process speeds by me like the speed of light.
Tick-tock. The time on my watch is still accurate, but the timing of God is on a pace of its own.
Take our adoption process, for example. We applied in October and instead of waiting many months to take the compulsory adoption parenting course, we already have that checked off our to do list. One month after applying we quickly found ourselves sitting in a room with other prospective parents, many of whom had applied much earlier in Spring. Now we have thrust ourselves into completing a mountain of documents required to complete our dossier, months ahead of what we anticipated. It's like God was simply waiting for us to apply already, so that he could get the ball rolling.
Then we wait... Not on our watch, but on God's. We wait for our homestudy to be complete, we wait for the dossier to be prepared and sent to the country yet to be determined. And we wait some more... for a match to be made with our family so we can be united with our new children.
We anticipate a predictably slow adoption process, but who knows, we are already further ahead than we anticipated to be by Spring 2013. God-speed can mean both miraculously fast, tryingly slow, or simply unknown... and that's OK. Timing is everything, especially God's.
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