The challenge with avocados, famously, is the very brief window when they are at perfect ripeness. Open too late, and they're a browning mush, but too soon and they're hard and lacking flavour.
Avocados can be an exercise in patience, and in attentiveness.
In chatting recently with a dear friend about patience, she reminded me of Paul in Romans 8.25 "But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience."
In life, we don't always practice attentiveness and patience as much as we might. We try to control timing and outcomes, forgetting to apply our trust and hope on God's time.
Yet we know deep down that we can't rush God's time. And we know that we need to be willing to respond to God when the time comes. Patience and attentiveness are part of our spiritual journey, as we discern how Spirit is moving in our lives.
And with all discernment, it takes time and practice; just like the perfect moment of ripeness: there is still value in the early or the late, but they just aren't quite as good.
God is speaking, and inviting, and always accompanying; it is our privilege to practice learning how to live in God's time.
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