He Hasn't Missed A Beat!

I really need to talk to someone out there...there's a friend of mine, who's very special to me for no particular reason, other than that sometimes, I think of myself as her big brother. But this friend of mine (let's call her lil siz) has been having a rather rough patch of life in the last few months and weeks, not because something is terribly wrong, but because...she can't wait to grow up!

My lil siz, she's stuck somewhere in life between childhood and teenage, and every week, it rankles her endless that she has to be a child, while she so desperately wants to be away from it all...but time won't work with her, for some reason!:)

I thought of my friend today as I was listening to one of my favorite songs ever - it's by Caedmon's Call, and it's called Table For Two. This song could have been written for me, and it reminds me everyday that as much as I want to be away from here, to the next place; as much as I want to grow on, and not have to be where I am anymore, God has not missed a beat. Its last verse (which actually describes a day like today for me) says:

This day's been crazy but everything's happened on schedule,
From the rain and the cold to the drink that I spilled on my shirt;
Cause you knew how you'd save me before I fell dead in the garden,
And you knew this day long before you made me out of dirt;
And you know the plans, that You have for me,
And you can't plan the end and not plan the means;
And so I suppose, I just need some peace,
To get me to sleep.

Yeah. Whoever you are, whatever you're going through, and small siz too, I want y'all to know - God hasn't missed a beat. No matter how unmoving and stagnant you feel; no matter what looks like it's not working out; no matter how hopeless and helpless things look; God hasn't missed a beat. He's right on schedule with your life.