Gestation
Everything in creation requires a time of gestation: canyons took millions of years to be formed by rivers of water; the oldest known Sequoia tree is said to have taken 3,266 years to grow; it takes nine months of being swaddled in the womb before babies are ready to be held in a mother’s loving arms. I would say that it is a part of God’s order to wait.
-Br. Jim Woodrum, SSJE