It is prime time hunting for bow hunters with rifle season right around the corner.  I have seen trucks with hundreds of pounds of corn in the back, good thing we can only place 2 gallons a day per 40.  Stores with hunting gear are busy and people are sighting in the rifles.  Season is opening soon.

I am bow hunting and I have a morning ritual that is automatic this time of year.  Get up, make coffee, get lunches ready, the kids some food, drink some coffee, check the weather, make sure the wood stove is going, drink some more coffee and finally shower to get out to the woods.  I drop the kids off at school and get to the woods as fast as I can without getting a speeding ticket.  I get dressed and head into the stand moving quickly and quietly so as not to spook anything since it is daylight already.  I get settled in the stand and then try to relax.  My whole morning has been hurry, hurry, hurry now wait. 

I can sit in my stand for 5 hours and it feels as if time flies.  I can sit there in eager expectation of what might be following a doe, or just all of a sudden appear.  What I am realizing is that I am all to willing to wait and be still for a deer for hours, but with God 10 minutes seems to be an eternity some of the time.  Psalm 46: 10 tells me to "Be still and know that I am God".  I do pray and meditate while in the stand, but my focus is so quickly shifted to the sound of rustling leaves or a faint grunt.  I realize that God does not have my full attention. 

Eugene Peterson writes this in The Message; But God's not finished. He's waiting around to be gracious to you.  He's gathering strength to show mercy to you.  God takes the time to do everything right—everything.  Those who wait around for him are the lucky ones.  Isaiah 30:18 

Have you ever thought that you are the lucky one to wait on the Lord.  Take some time and hurry up and wait.  You will be glad you did.