This does not apply to everyone nor every case, but frequently my rushing to do something probably has a common root cause: insecurity. Phrased positively, it is a desire to be the best. But this desire comes from the insecurity that if I am not the best then I will not blah blah blah.

As I become more and more introspective of my life, I sometimes caught myself wanting to rush for - looking back now - something that is not urgent nor important in the big picture. Habits built up over the years and they become automatic. Rushing serves only to "comfort" myself - to satisfy the root cause of my insecurity.

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven .. He has made everything suitable for its time .."

(Ecclesiastes 3.1,11 NRSV)

Lord,
you are never late and never too early
please help me be sensitive to your timing