God’s timetable

In Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, the narrator encourages the imprisoned Joseph not to despair because “I’ve read the book and you come out on top.” Unfortunately, neither Joseph nor any of us has the benefit of such a prognosticator. Our books are written as we live them out, and none of us knows what the ending will look like. Too often we may feel as if we are languishing in the doldrums of life, waiting for God to bring our work or talents to…