One Of The most valuable lessons of my life came from my wife and our then four-or five-year-old son. She told me that he didn't need to have the same sense of timing about things, that it was OK for him to be different from me. Today that son is a professional musician, and his own sense of timing has served him very well.
I came to find joy in our differences.
In the intervening years, however, I needed to be faithful to that lesson more than once, and to understand that there are spiritual facts undergirding its wisdom. Looked at from the perspective of my own life experiences, what our son should do, or how quickly he should do it, seemed very clear to me. What seemed his inability or apparent unwillingness to conform to my plan was at times disturbing to me.
