There is something that happens to a grown man when they are sitting around the dinner table, waiting on their food and it never comes — or at least it takes forever.
You know the moment, when you’re out with a group of friends or family, everyone has ordered and the food finally arrives. Except, the waiter gingerly explains that your meal is going to take a few more minutes.
Then, you realize, you’re the last man everyone is waiting on with an empty plate.
It happened to my nephew just a few days ago. Everyone received their meal and he was just about to do the same when his plate, filled with food, slips off the tray and crashes to the floor.
It’s a horrible feeling to have to wait while everyone else enjoys their hot meal. But as I sat there thinking about how he and many others have felt after being told their plate of food will take a few more minutes, I couldn’t help but think about how sometimes it’s because the cook is taking the time to make his food for no one else, but him!
Life is a lot like this. We often overlook the special attention with the details. Whether it’s with a plate of food and we are the last one to get it or in life and we think our fix will never come, we tend to feel slighted somehow when we are the last man everyone is waiting on and our plate is empty.
We wonder why everyone else has it so good and how they could be so rich. But we forget our own story of uniqueness. We forget that my life holds priceless ingredients to have made it so special, it truly is one-of-a-kind.
God works like that! I’m so glad to wait on my plate — take your time, make it great!
