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“He has made everything appropriate in its time.”

—Ecclesiastes 3:11

“In its time” is such an important phrase to consider. Each thing has an appropriate, appointed time.

Some trees flower before they have any leaves; some grow the leaves first. Some bushes have flowers for months, and some bloom once for mere days each season.

The largest flower in the world only blooms once approximately every forty years. There’s another that can take one–hundred years to bloom, then it dies.

This is just one reason why comparison is never helpful.

We can’t say the flower that blooms once every forty years is a failure. We can’t say that the flower that blooms once a year for a few days is incompetent.

They are each different and uniquely beautiful.

In the same way, one person may seem to have an evergreen career and enjoy win after win. Others may experience success several notable times in their lives. But some people will be the flower that blooms once in forty or one–hundred years, and that is not a failure. That is God’s ordained purpose.

We seem to think that we should all be on the same track—college, career, family, steady finances, good health. But God has different timelines, different paths, and different purposes for each of us. Each “blooming” will look different.

If you feel that your life has not blossomed the way you hoped, hang on. God will make it appropriate—some versions say “beautiful”—in its time.

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