Patience and timing is everything

Patience is an extremely hard lesson to learn. What's even harder, is learning to have patience and wait for God's time. He's God. He doesn't work on a normal 24 hour clock. He's got a whole lotta time and we don't feel like we do, so to be patient and wait is unbearable.
I have been praying about a few specific topics for months. Waiting and waiting for Him to give me the chance, to speak, and be listened to, and have my heart and needs heard.
Silence.
Just keep waiting.
Not now, not yet.
The time will come.
Trying to shift my focus onto other things easier for me to control, I waited. Days and months and then finally, the time came.
No nervousness, no questions, no butterflies, but clear as day, the door opened and I seized it. An opportunity and timing that cannot be from any other place but from answered prayer from the Lord.
My voice was heard. Which in retrospect wasn't even my voice at all. All the words flowed too freely. All the jumbled pieces I had rehearsed in my mind of what I would say were gone and clear thoughts and simple phrases were in their place.
This is what it looks like, and what it feels like, to throw out your own compass, throw away your watch, and be directed and guided at a time that is carefully planned and plotted by the Lord.
Patience.
Gods time.
It will come.
Your prayers are heard.

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