Peace in the Meantime

We’re used to things happening fast.
Groceries in an hour. News in real time.
Responses within minutes, if not seconds.

We track our packages.
Our steps.
Our sleep.

Everything feels like it should be at our fingertips.
And when it’s not?
We wonder what’s wrong.

But not everything good can be delivered on demand.
Not growth. Not healing. Not perspective.
Some things only arrive with time.

Maybe the real luxury is letting something
take as long as it needs.

The spark of understanding that only rises
after you’ve sat with something a while.
The clarity that waits just beyond the noise,
arriving softly a few months later,
when you finally see what you couldn’t at the time.

The healing that comes
not all at once—
but slowly.
In layers.
In quiet.
In the sacred ordinary of everyday life.

The growth that slips in while you're just
trying to make it through the week,
folding laundry and making dinner
and waking up to do it all again.

If you're waiting for something to feel clear...
If you're hoping to feel more like yourself again...
If this leg of your journey feels slow, or strangely quiet...

Maybe nothing’s wrong.
Maybe you’re not behind.
Maybe this is what becoming looks like.

Give it time.
Let it breathe.

Not everything is meant to happen fast.
Some of the best things —
the truest,
deepest,
most precious things —
take time.