Sacred Stories
One month into their four-month snowbird season, her husband had emergency CABG – coronary artery bypass grafting. They had no idea he had extensive coronary artery disease.
She anticipated he would be discharged from the hospital today. Catching up on email, a message from the book Easy Does It: A Book of Daily Twelve Step Meditations* their friend sent to her the previous day caught her attention. The author of the opening quotation leapt off the page.
Time ripens all things. No man’s born wise.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes is the name of the surgeon who did her husband’s open-heart surgery!
We come to understand time in a different way. Each day we discover that there is an order to life that is only revealed day-to-day. The moments when life forces us to reconsider our schedule are no longer met with anger and frustration. We begin to trust our Higher Power to actually dictate what will happen in our lives. We find ourselves staying close to people who have developed some measure of humility for they seem to have a better sense of timing.