One morning I had a breakfast sandwich and was fine – the day looked bright.  The next morning I could barely finish a biscotti without hurting my stomach.  What’s the problem?  Timing.  The wrong timing or no timing, can be a killer.  Hence, it is critical that we know timing – the right timing.

Let’s touch on two perspectives on the concept of timing.  First, let’s suppose you were preparing your favorite dish.  You collected the right ingredients but you added some before you were supposed to.  Then, you placed part of the mixture in the oven with the intention of adding the rest after half-baking the partial mix.  Undoubtedly, your production wouldn’t turn out to be as tasty as you hoped. The sequence of events has to be right.

Here’s another perspective.  You’ve been wanting to go back to school to finish your education, or maybe you have been meaning to call that long lost friend or relative to make things right.  Yet something always seems to come up.  You thought you should wait for the right time, which may have been months, or even years.  In retrospect, it is clear that the time may never be just right.  So, now is the right time.

Sometimes we have a good sense of when is the right timing.  So, wanting the right time isn’t necessarily the main issue.  Perhaps it is fear.  Fear of failure.  Fear of the unknown.  Fear that you cannot handle it as taught by Susan Jeffers in Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway.

Some goals require you to follow a recipe but some require that you create the recipe by just jumping in.  The right time for you is now.

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“Timing is everything,” says some unknown

Yet “no-timing” can be the more decisive way to go

For whom can realize the finish without a plan?

Yet it could paralyze action by craving perfection shown

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“Fear not,” He said and still says today

Because I’m with you from the morning dew

Till the setting sun and glimmer of twilight

Strategize you may, but let Me have My way

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The balance to determine when to act

And when to wait, needs direction

So trust Him who knows the future

For the peace in knowing “the right time,” for a fact