My husband and I got a lesson and huge laugh today. It all began with a trip to the In N Out 2 minutes away from our house. As you all know, today was the Super Bowl. We were ordering pizza for dinner tonight, but being in a certain phase of my diet, I can't eat starches and sugars yet. So I really wanted a Double Double Protein Style Burger. If you don't know what that is, it's a double burger wrapped in lettuce leaves, rather than a bun. And I really wanted my daily addiction of an extra large ice tea. Being a nice wife, I didn't want to bother my husband in leaving during his game to go get these things, so I decided that we would go around 12:30 p.m.
The timing felt so off, however. I wasn't even hungry. I really would rather have had those two items for dinner. But again............I didn't want to disrupt the game as I knew my husband would insist on going with me because we do everything together. Off we went and I wondered how on earth I was going to enjoy my food when my stomach was still kind of full from breakfast.
We got to In N Out and at first everything seemed normal. This particular place is so efficient that they've always gotten our order perfectly. I ordered my food and iced tea, and an Animal Style fries and drink for the hubby. He in turn waited to do a separate order of Animal Style fries for our youngest daughter who had given him her gift card to get her some food. For some reason, my cashier was off today. I was ordering 4 items. Simple, right? She kept leaving out things and getting them wrong. Patiently I kept repeating myself over and over again until I thought she had it right. Then my husband and I went to fill up the drinks while we waited for our food.
As we were sitting, I glanced at my receipt and realized it didn't say that my burger was supposed to be "protein style". I asked my husband if he thought the way the cashier had it down was the same? She had it written that it would just be with lettuce, tomato, and grilled onions (which I had said I didn't want) only. Did that mean it was going to come on a bun? He took my receipt back up to the counter to inquire about it. Sure enough, they would have given me a bun, which I cannot eat. So they made sure the person making my burger knew it was to be lettuce wrapped only.
After a while, my order was ready. Then we waited and waited and waited for our youngest daughter's order to be ready to take back to the house for her. After a long time, we realized that her order number was earlier than my number called and the numbers they were now calling were already way beyond mine. Finally my husband went back up to ask because the only item ordered was the one order of fries. They had never put it in. No fries were waiting for us. So we had to wait awhile again while they made it. I remarked to my husband that In N Out had finally broken their perfect streak with us. Today it seemed nothing was going right in there.
When we finally got her order, we walked outside to head to the car. I was chattering away when suddenly I felt the cardboard drink carrier give way. I looked down in shock just in time to see the handle had torn loose and the drinks were hanging just about to tumble out. Don't ask me how I saved them from doing so, but I did! When I got into the car, I started laughing. I told my husband, "Man, we were obviously NOT meant to be at In N Out at this time!"
Then something else hit me and I burst out laughing even harder. I told him, "Do you want to know what one of my cards said today? It told me that conditions were not going to be favorable. I was not meant to be here until around dinner time, but I didn't want to mess with your game!"
We both started cracking up and then started being silly. I joked that hopefully we wouldn't get hit on the road home with the way our luck and timing was going. Then I hooted about getting a flat tire. My husband said not to joke about that because with our car that was a very good possibility. Ha ha! So we were making up crazy scenarios........and when we pulled up to our house, the garage door went up....then started coming down again on its own. I told him that the door was trying to land on us. He said if it did, it would probably crush my side because conditions weren't supposed to be favorable for me today. I told him no, it would be his side because I had to live to tell the story of Divine timing. Hahahahahahahaha!
And that's exactly what it was. I was being shown today that we can have what we want. But when we try to rush things before their time, before everything lines up perfectly for the best outcome possible, we will get mediocre results at best. When the timing is out of synch, things will go wrong or we will be disappointed with the results. Had I waited to go to In N Out, the employees wouldn't have been so rushed into making mistakes because the crowds would have been home watching the Super Bowl......and the drink carrier I would have received wouldn't have been defective.
Divine timing is everything. It made me think of when we had to leave the Air Force when my husband was medically discharged for his knees. We were both jobless for 4 years after that. It was horrible, and we felt pressured by the need to survive and the not so nice comments of family to hurry and get back on our feet. Everything we tried failed. We were unhappy. When we did find little ways of making money, we still felt hopeless because it wasn't what we had envisioned for ourselves. We kept pushing and pushing, until we gave up.
Had we realized what Divine timing truly was, we would have done what we could to survive at the time, but with faith and happiness in our hearts that one day everything would snap into place and we would be okay, doing things we loved. We learned it after the fact when it became quite clear, but it would have saved a lot of depression and tears during those 4 years. We both eventually wound up with great jobs once we let go of trying to control the situation. Everything just lined up perfectly and we saw how those jobs were ready to be available at the most perfect time for us. I left my job since, but my husband continues to love his and is doing very well! Which, I may add, has allowed me to do what I love even though we sacrifice a lot with me being self-employed. The point is, we're happy, even when things are tight.
This goes for so many things in life. Never give up. Never lose patience and try to force something to happen. If you really want it, be willing to wait for it. As you spark your idea and send out your desire, the Universe responds.
