Better Late Than Never, or is Later Even Better?

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Have you noticed that we are a “rush obsessed” society? Some of our most familiar proverbs are about time:

  • The early bird catches the worm
  • A dollar short and a day late
  • Better three hours too soon than a minute late

We have microwave ovens that speed up cooking, newer computers that download even faster than before (because fifteen seconds to find the answer to EVERYTHING is too slow), knitting machines to mass produce a once appreciated craft in a fraction of the time, instant mashed potatoes, instant language courses, shortcuts, hacks, speed reading courses, calculators that make arithmetic skills obsolete, starting preschool as young as possible, graduating high school as young as possible, cars that go from zero to sixty miles an hour in seconds, faster…faster..FASTER!!

Have you ever heard the saying, “God is NEVER late, but seldom early”? Why are we so obsessed with faster, earlier, and younger? What will we eventually do with all the time we have accumulated? Will we sit around and complain about how bored we are with all the time on our hands? I guess we’ll have an infinite amount of time to play video games or be on Facebook. Then, when we’re old, we’ll regret rushing our way through life when we thought we were old.

Proper curing and seasoning take time. Growing and gaining wisdom take even more time – it’s not too much time, just the right amount of time. Many of the things I have done within the most recent five years are things that I wanted to do many years ago. However, I often think, “I sure wish this happened when I was much younger!” Actually, my abilities and perspectives were SO different years ago, that I wouldn’t have been aware or even able to do those things back then. Of course, I understand that we need to be punctual, we need to be productive, we need to take opportunities that are given to us, and we need to be responsible and conscientious. However, circumstances present themselves in our lives at the perfect time appointed by God; that’s how they fit into our jigsaw lives when they make the most sense and create the most good. When we are trying to put a puzzle together, we lay the different pieces to the side and put the boundaries or logical pieces in to set the base of the picture. Sometimes, the brightest piece of the puzzle that caught your eye first doesn’t fit in until it’s the last. Then it finally makes sense, and you see the beautiful picture. You can still see the boundaries and the shape of each puzzle piece, but the way God fits each piece in at the right time to create the big picture of YOU is truly amazing!

Everyone develops their talents at different rates, and their puzzle pieces fit together differently. If we rush to speed up the process, we lose some of the pieces along the way, and the final picture is incomplete. Take care with your talent and your heart, and the wonderful creation will be complete when it will shine the best.Dance on.

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I have been a ballet dancer since I was eight years old. I danced professionally for thirty years with the Washington Ballet and then the Asaph Dance Ensemble. I now own and direct the Northern Virginia Dance Academy and direct the Asaph Dance Ensemble. I began writing in 2006 with the first edition of Breathing Life into Dance-One Teacher's Perspective. I then began a series of children's books based on situations that everyone experiences not only in a ballet studio, but also in life. We are never too old to learn something new nor teach what we'e learned to someone else!

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