Found this quote today in a great book I'm reading, The Heart of a Servant Leader, a collection of letters by Jack Miller (founder of World Harvest Mission and author of Sonship curriculum). He is writing to a missionary in Uganda, but it is so true here in Peru. I encounter this all the time, and need to learn this lesson.
"You are learning an unwritten law of Uganda [Peru] - which is that anything that should take only a week in our eyes ends up taking six months to a year to get accomplished. But there is an advantage in this slowdown which we hasty westerners can use for our own profit. It is the value of taking time to love people. So you may have delays....but you never need delay loving people in a selfless way. Actually delays are great because they often reveal the power of indwelling sin. We are flying high, then comes a postponement of our hopes, and we end up with an irritable spirit which shows an alarming degree of self-independence and reliance on human capacities.....which reveals we have unconsciously forgotten that trusting Christ is more important than doing things for Christ."
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