Daily Lesson for November 17, 2014

Today's daily lesson comes from Habakuk chapter 2 verse 3:

3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.

We are in the midst of a visioning process at Second B and were scheduled to have a very important meeting yesterday.  This was the last of three congregational meetings and the one we were all looking forward as we were to intentionally dream about the future together at this meeting.

Alas, we were snowed out. Snowed out, and given the holidays coming up, I know this meeting will have to be delayed beyond the New Year.  It was disheartening.

And then appears this lesson from the daily office this morning: "the vision awaits its appointed time."

A good reminder that the times are in God's hands and that I cannot and need not dictate that things come about on my schedule. I can control neither the snow nor the vision.  What I can do is relax, breathe deeply, pray, and trust God is in this.  That is sufficient for today; that is sufficient for everyday. 

The vision awaits its appointed time; if it tarries we wait on it. What else can we do?