Timing

Reading through Esther, she did all that she could:
Fasted and prayed with the community, dressed well,
Risked death to visit her husband, invited to dinner.

And somehow, in the midst of that dinner,
She realized that she should not make her request,
But pushed off the big reveal to the next day.

Good thing. Overnight, the entire political situation
Changed. The sleepless king remembered Mordecai.
Haman had to honor Mordecai.

And so Esther’s plea to her drunken playboy husband
Would probably have ended in failure after dinner one,
But after dinner two, what she asked was granted.

Though God is not named, his pattern
Of guidance and provision suffuses all.

I ask for things that don’t come to pass in my timing.
Maybe I should trust that God’s timing is better.