“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1
I had a five-year plan. God had other ideas.
Not bad ideas—just different ones. Slower ones. More circuitous ones. Plans that required more faith because they required more waiting.
When God changes the pace of your plans, it's easy to feel like you've failed. Like if you were more faithful, more obedient, more strategic, things would be moving faster. But pace is not always about you.
Sometimes God slows things down to protect us from what we're not ready for. Sometimes He accelerates seasons to push us into growth we've been avoiding. Sometimes the pace is about the people we need to meet or the lessons we need to learn along the way.
This verse in Ecclesiastes has become my anchor: there is a time for everything. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to run and a time to rest. A time to push forward and a time to wait.
Trusting God with the pace means releasing our timelines while staying faithful to our assignments. It means showing up today even when we don't know about tomorrow.
If your plans have been disrupted, slowed, or rerouted, I invite you to consider: maybe the pace is the plan. Maybe God knows exactly what He's doing with your timeline.
A Prayer
Father, I surrender my timeline to You. Help me to trust Your pace even when it's different from mine. Give me peace in the process and faithfulness in the waiting. Amen.
Stay close to the journey.
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