[ perspective ]

   You know those moments when you say just a word or a few words, and the minute they come out, you already see the reaction and consequences coming?

   I found myself in one of those incidences today.

   I managed to sit at a table with a Danish-speaking homeless man between myself and my other two friends, attempting to strike up a conversation. Between the drukenly slurred speech and trying my very best to pick up on as much Danish as possible, I quickly lost track of the way the conversation was going. It went from small talk to him asking how it's going in Danish. I replied "Jeg har det godt" [or I'm good], and asked him the same. Apparently he didn't hear this, but only heard me asking him how he was doing. And then he randomly started getting upset about this.

[ time's not a-wastin' ]

   God doesn't waste time.

    Something that never fails to awe me is His timing. There have been so many times when I've been waiting around, getting impatient because maybe things aren't moving at my speed or happening the way I want them to. And then He comes along and things end up far better than I could have ever planned.

   Right? I'm sure in one way or another, we can all relate to this. Everytime.

   When will I learn..

   Why do we waste so much time wondering why we're in this certain place of our lives? Why do we stress about "not being far enough" or "not growing enough"?

   Most of all, why I am wasting my time, and, ultimately, His time?

   It's so, so easy for me to get caught up in this endless circle of fearing I'm not growing enough, moving forward fast enough. I was stressing about this one afternoon, and after asking Him what He thought, He interrupted me and said "Stop. Just stop worrying. I have you right where I want you."

   That stopped my train of thoughts crazily running around my head and I began to think about that.