Ready, Get Set…Wait

Jared tossed his backpack onto the kitchen island, plopped on a stool, and buried his head in his arms with a sigh. His dad looked up from his laptop. "Something wrong, Jared?""Yeah, something's wrong! Coach Jackson made Sam captain instead of me! I've been on the team longer, I'm the leading scorer, and I know all about the strategies of the other teams. No one is more ready to be captain than me!""I'm so sorry," said Dad. "I know how much you wanted that role. And you're right, you do have a lot of the ingredients needed to be a good captain." Jared slipped off the stool and walked over to the refrigerator, looking for something to eat. Inside, he found a bowl of orange gelatin--his favorite. He quickly grabbed a spoon and dug in. "Ewww," Jared said. "It's all runny!""That's because it needs to set for another hour or so." His dad paused. "You know, that gelatin makes me think of what God might be doing in this captain situation. Remember what we read the other night about how, when