RIght on Time

I was 25 when I started dating my first ever boyfriend.

Because of this, I spent most of my life feeling late for experiences and milestones that my friends and younger siblings had already had. I had created a false inner narrative that I was behind, undesirable, and undeserving.

I am still with that first and only boyfriend and we've moved through everything together at a slow and gentle pace. After over 5 years we just moved in together. We don't own our place, or have babies, the human or furry kind. But no part of me doubts these things will come when they are meant to. At the pace we choose.

It hasn't always been easy and I sometimes still have flashes of those "are we behind?!" moments. But less often now because I can look back and see that every single part of our timing so far has been right for us. This is true for many other parts of my life as well.

☀️For you, if you need to hear it, but also for a younger me:☀️

We can't rush a sunrise. The earth makes one complete turn every 24 hours, but its orbit is elliptical and its axis isn't perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. It tilts. This tilt gives us seasons. And this elliptical orbit means the sun is not meant to rise and set at the same time each day.

Like the sun, you are rising and setting on your own pace. You have within you your own seasons, your own divine timing. You are not late or behind or unworthy of whatever hasn't happened for you yet.

Like a perfect sunrise or sunset, you are right on time, in all of your seasons.