It’s tempting to wait for calmer waters. The timing just isn’t right, we tell ourselves. The conditions just aren’t lined up, we say.  I’ll do that when I’m less busy, I think.

C.S. Lewis had this to say about always looking for that perfect moment:

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”

There is no perfect time. There is right now and God is fully present.