Time is not, yet My children often need to take time. Seeds sprouting in the earth do not pop up instantly; nor does your creative thinking. Give your ideas a chance to grow. Do not force them. Consider time a cushion you give your thoughts to rest on.
Everything does not have to be this minute. Nor does it have to take a year. Some things will develop quickly and others may take ten years. Since time is not, what does it matter?
Your timeline is irrelevant.
Neither slow down nor hasten that which will come when ready.
This applies to many many situations. It applies to finding the love of your life. It applies to the blossoming of a book. It applies to career. What does this not apply to?
But time in the world is a conundrum. It does not exist and yet you have to consider it. You have to get to places on time. You have to meet deadlines. You have company coming for dinner, and when will supper be ready unless you hurry? So there are times to hasten and times to put your feet up and slow down.
Even when there is nothing you can do to make something you want to happen happen right now, still your participation is needed, your energy, your thoughts, your interest, your desire. The soup on the stove needs time for cooking. You do not have to watch it, but you must keep the gas on.
Then there are many situations that leave no room for developing. You save the child from a burning fire now. You write down your idea right now so you don’t forget it. There are many things you need to take care of right now. There are many things it is better not to stew on.
It is better to wash dishes now. It is better to pick up the pencil you dropped now. It is better to turn to Me now.
What you expect of others cannot be immediate. They have their own pace. That is their choice, not yours. Where you turn your attention is yours to choose but not for you to choose for anyone else.
This question of timing also applies to what you expect of Me as well. You give Me a question, an assignment, a directive, and you would constrict Me as to when and how to fulfill it. You may assign a peremptory time limit. Yes, time is a limit.
You are not going to change Me. I am unchangeable. This does not mean I am stubborn. It means My vision is more farseeing than yours. You cannot expand My thinking, beloveds. Therefore, you must expand your own.
When I do not suit you, there is a thorn within you that you must address. When you fault Me, there is a wound within you that needs attention.
There is a tendency for My children to affix responsibility outside themselves. Certainly, things happen that do come from outside. They were not your desire, nor were they your making nor your timing. A coconut falls from a tree you were sitting under and it conks you on the head.
You can blame the tree, the coconut, Me all you want. But you are the one who has to rub your head, get up, and perhaps open the coconut and drink its milk.
Even if someone or something or God were responsible for every circumstance you find yourself in, you are responsible for what you think, make of it, and do next. You are also responsible if you stay in one spot and bemoan your lot. I recommend that you get up and come to Me now.