When You Finally Realize God’s Timing is Perfect

Let’s dive into the ever-relevant topic of divine timing—how it feels when life doesn’t line up with our plans. This heartfelt conversation is for anyone who’s praying, waiting, striving—or just wondering if they’ve missed their moment. Lanee and Sandy remind us that even when we can’t see the full picture, there is movement happening behind the scenes. It’s an invitation to breathe, trust, and take heart—knowing that God’s timing is always on point. 

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Through personal stories, honest reflections, and a little humor, they explore how faith, patience, and even discomfort can open the door to unexpected peace and purpose. Sandy shares her recurring encounters with the numbers 8:28 and how they led her to the comforting promise of Romans 8:28: “All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.”—a truth that’s been a steady reminder during seasons of uncertainty.

Lanee takes it to another level looking at the difference between "manifesting" desires and surrendering them to God, explaining how gratitude, faith, and humility can coexist with ambition and hard work. She shares how this helps navigate unanswered prayers and long delays. Her takeaway? A powerful mindset shift: “God leads. I follow.” It’s not about passivity but about staying open and grounded as we do the work and trust God with the results.

So grab some coffee or whatever your favorite beverage is….settle in and press play to be encouraged to trust the timing, trust the process—and most of all, trust the One who’s writing your story.

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Transcript

Lanee Blaise [00:00:08]:
Hey, everybody. This is Lanee and Sandy and we want to welcome you to season seven of Imagine Yourself Pod podcast. It is hard to believe that we have completed six beautiful years and seasons together, and we will continue to bring you some passionate, loving, informative, good stuff from both Sandy and myself for season seven and beyond. I wanna talk a little bit today. Sandy and I have been really rolling in our minds the power of timing, the power of God's timing even more specifically. The goal of today is to dig into the fact that we are humans and we love to have things go in our timing, but sometimes we need to sit back and really take a look and a listen for the nudges that God is giving us on how God wants us to proceed in this world, in this life, with our timing, whether that be for our career, our relationships, things with children, work, all the good stuff. But let's start. I think if it's okay with you, Sandy, if you talk about the literal and spiritual timing thing that has been going on with you that that we know God is doing.

Lanee Blaise [00:01:33]:
So just drop that on us, please. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:01:36]:
I mean, it's something that I've never experienced before that is so specific, and we've had episodes about how we listen for God and listen for messages from the Holy Spirit, different ways God speaks to us. So lately, and I would have to say this has been maybe going on for a month ish, I have been seeing eight twenty eight almost every time I look at my clock. I started really noticing it when we were on our we had a cruise. It was a river cruise, and we'd get off in these different cities in Europe and take a bus to go on a tour to wherever we were going. And I would always look up at the clock at 08:28 in the morning, and it's happened at home too. I'm not saying that every time I've looked at the clock, it's been 08:28. That would be ridiculous because it's real life. But almost every time and whenever I have, I've always felt the assurance.

Sandy Kovach [00:02:32]:
It's like, Sandy, that's for you. Eight twenty eight. Remember, Romans eight twenty eight. All things work together for good for those who love god and are called according to his purpose. And I just believe that god is constantly telling me that everything is gonna work out, all those worries. And it doesn't mean everything's perfect, and people interpret Romans eight twenty eight all kind of different ways probably that aren't correct. But, basically, it doesn't mean that I'm not gonna have any more trouble in life. Not at all.

Sandy Kovach [00:03:01]:
But in the end, god's working it out to bring me closer to Christ for god's glory and all the things that Romans eight twenty eight means. That working it together for good, which almost

Lanee Blaise [00:03:12]:
in a way might even imply that we weren't necessarily on the face of it thinking it was all that good, you know, when something lands in our life that we don't want or we don't want at that particular time, but God works it together for good. And Sandy, you and I, we have had lots of previous episodes where we talked about how do we hear from God and the different ways and that your route of hearing God has not been this super easy, oh, God just spoke these words, and I just knew it was God. Yours has been through dreams, and then now through this time with this eight twenty eight. And I just wonder now I'm wondering if anyone who's listening is gonna end up spontaneously or divinely tomorrow or next week, start realizing that they're looking at the clock, and it's 08:28. I just I hope that, actually. I hope that for both.

Sandy Kovach [00:04:06]:
Yeah. I mean, it's pretty direct, not at first, because at first, you don't notice it. And then even when you do notice it, you don't automatically just tie it to scripture. I mean, it's a time. It's 08:28 in the morning. It's 08:28 at night. And for whatever reason, I mostly get it in the morning. I did get it the last night.

Sandy Kovach [00:04:22]:
Romans 08:28 is something I would recommend people read and read in the context of the whole scripture, and we're not gonna sit here and dissect it or anything like that. But, basically, you said it, Lynne. People can go through all kinds of things, good and bad. It's just that means that it works out in the end. And I even think that in our last episode when we were talking about when we're praying for something to happen and God gives us a not yet, sometimes the yet is not even like, it could be years later, it could be generationally, it could be. It's just an assurance that God has us. And God's timing, just to kinda go back to your first point, is so hard to take comfort in sometimes because we want our timing. We want what we want.

Sandy Kovach [00:05:06]:
We want it now. And I think sometimes we feel like God's letting us down instead of just trusting him.

Lanee Blaise [00:05:12]:
That is true. That trust going hand in hand with the timing component is very difficult. When we think of God as our heavenly father and we think of ourselves as his human children, when you think of your children, they oftentimes do not like the timing of of, you know, what we're doing. You know, they want to go swimming or whatever. Like, my niece I just heard this from my sister just yesterday. My niece said, hey, mom. I I wanna go to Disney World today. And so my sister, very professional, said, well, honey, you can't just decide you wanna go to Disney World like that.

Lanee Blaise [00:05:56]:
That's something that you need to plan for. Now she is almost six years old, and she says, okay, mom. I want to plan to go to Disney World next weekend, please. And it's like so it's that thing where, god, yes, I would like to plan to have my child, my job, the man of my dreams, the big bank account, the award winning screenplay, you know, the radio show, all the different things next weekend, please. And that is just not usually the way that it goes. This wasn't something that we had planned to talk about, Sandy, but I do wanna talk about the word manifesting also. A lot of people have been talking about manifesting lately. There are different opinions and different thoughts, and, of course, I am only a fellow human being, so this is just my take on it.

Lanee Blaise [00:06:57]:
But when I think of the word manifesting and, like, bringing it into being and creating something, I really started getting kinda confused, and I went directly to God. I was led to the story that many of us know in the Bible with the loaves and the fishes, where there is Jesus trying to feed the the multitude of people. And there's only this small portion of food, but thousands of people. And there's this component that Jesus has of gratitude to God, thanking God really in advance for the blessing. And then sure enough, the food does, in a way, manifest or multiply, feeds the people, and then there's, you know, the gratitude afterward. So what I'm getting at with all this, with the manifesting is that's still God's lane in my humble opinion. It's still something where we have the openness. We have the trust.

Lanee Blaise [00:08:08]:
We have the gratitude to God for providing something to us that is given from God. But we still have the humility and the trust and the love to say, I thank God in advance for it, and I understand that I am going to go out on faith and believing in the way that God wants to provide. I think this actually takes some of the pressure off of some of us of feeling like if x y z has not happened for me, it's because I didn't pray right. I didn't believe enough. I didn't do this or that or the other. And I want to please have people take that pressure off of their shoulders. Still believe, still trust, still pray, still work at things. Yes.

Lanee Blaise [00:09:00]:
But if there's a way that you take away from this episode, the component of having that ease, knowing that God works things out for us, knowing that there's a time, that there is a plan, and that there's a beauty to it because it's God.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:18]:
Yeah. He uses everything. My pastor says that a lot. God uses everything. And it's especially hard to understand when things are super difficult. And when you're in the middle of it, that's not the time when somebody should tap you on the shoulder and say, hey. Buck up. God uses everything.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:37]:
You know? Yeah. Nope. You gotta go through the grief, and you gotta process, and you gotta feel God gives you emotions. But if in the end or if at some point in there, you can say, this is all gonna work out for my good and the glory of God. I don't understand his plan. I don't understand his process. But just like an ant doesn't understand what we understand, we don't understand what God understands. That's that's for him to know.

Sandy Kovach [00:10:06]:
And and like you said, we try. We don't just sit there and, like, wait to quote manifest, you know, manna from heaven or something. Yes. You know, we believe that if God wanted to do what he could, you know, God can do anything. But the peace, I think that's like the most important thing you bring up. And they do talk in the Bible about the peace that passes all understanding, this unexplainable peace, that somehow, even though whatever's happening is happening, that it's gonna be okay in the end because God's got you.

Lanee Blaise [00:10:37]:
Yeah. And and even remembering the component of we are spiritual beings as well. So our bodies house our soul. And I personally believe that our soul even has, like, more of a piece than my little Lene personality over here who is, like, you know, thinking, like, very kind of, like, structured, and this has to go this way, and this has to go another way. I just want there to be an ease, a smoothness, a calmness, a trust that becomes such a habit that when the really hard things hit in life, and I'm not really feeling myself or you're not really feeling your best self, your most optimistic or faith filled self, there's still a default because of all of the prior smoothness that kinda kicks in and carries you, you know, or allows God to carry you through until, you know, you're able to really get back standing on our feet again.

Sandy Kovach [00:11:43]:
And with everything that you've been going through lately, Lynae, isn't that something that's kind of been churning with you?

Lanee Blaise [00:11:48]:
So yes. So when you say what I've been going through, I've been going through good things, but timing issues yet again. As far as with career things, when is that big thing going to hit? You know, as far as the television and film world, even as far as my siblings, I talk about my siblings a lot. I love them so much. But one of my sisters, it took a while before she found the man of her dreams, and they got married, and then it was difficult for them to have a child. And that was taking a long time. And time was you know, as we get older, you start the biological clock is ticking, and you're not sure how your body's gonna work. But now she not only has this beautiful, wonderful little daughter, but Sandy, that little girl has red hair just like me.

Lanee Blaise [00:12:44]:
In fact, the baby looks like me. I'm like, oh my gosh. She spent all these years hoping and praying for God to bless her with a child. And even, like, some of the nurses were like, oh, well she that baby looks like her. And they're pointing at me. I'm like, yes, I love this. But

Sandy Kovach [00:13:00]:
Auntie vibes.

Lanee Blaise [00:13:02]:
She vibes. It's like so God might have a sense of humor as well. But all this to say, you know, in this case, this is one of those cases where what she wanted did happen just much later than she had had hoped for. And so sometimes these things don't happen, but there's just so much hope. There's so much hope. And so, like, I was kinda, like, just earlier this week trying to think to myself, I was doing that thing. If I just believe and have enough strength that this TV and film stuff is just gonna explode, and millions of people will be watching our Christmas film and our television show. And, you know, along with doing the work, I had to just stop for a second because there's no guarantee that any of that will happen.

Lanee Blaise [00:13:50]:
It will be God's choice, and I have peace with it. And as far as manifesting it or not manifesting it, I choose to believe that I am working towards it, believing it, and yet surrendering it all to god as well. When god wants to do, what he wants to do, how he wants to do it, when he wants to do it, I'm having that peace about it because even before we got on here, Sandy, you told me it happens when God wants it to happen. And it is whatever you all out there are thinking it. It happens whenever god wants it to happen, and we're talking about, like, good things right now. But yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:14:34]:
Yeah. And it's so so hard sometimes when we're so anxious for something, and we've been working towards something. But looking back on it and, Lanae, let's say you have to wait another year. Who knows? Let's say it happens tomorrow. We don't know. But the point is whichever way it works out, you're gonna look at it and say, well, it couldn't have happened any other way. I mean, because x, y, and z and the those people saw it, and this person saw it, and they were the right people for me to contact. And they were just things are just gonna fall into place, those puzzle pieces that when we think things are just kinda scattered around or falling apart, the puzzle pieces are all of the pieces that god sees that we can't see that are going on around us, and the people that you might not even know yet.

Sandy Kovach [00:15:18]:
Or in whatever your situation is. People I might not even know yet or their whoever's listening might not even know yet is gonna play an integral part. And if it had happened earlier, another big thing wouldn't happen. So, you know, I'm putting in a lot of hypotheticals here, but you see my point. Right?

Lanee Blaise [00:15:34]:
I see your point. I I even see the part, like you said, about people. So we're commanded to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and we're commanded to love our neighbors ourself. Some of our, quote, unquote, neighbors are out there. They might be a part of this too. It is not just about us. That's Right. True.

Lanee Blaise [00:15:56]:
True. It's a hard one to say to somebody, but it's not all about me. Some of these things that are going to take place to be blessings to me might need to wait its turn because God is doing something, working something else together for good, for others who will be impacted and affected. Again, timing these different creative projects are supposed to come out when they will maybe be the most impactful to viewers and audience members and whatever's relevant for what's going on in the country or the world at that time. It's not all about me and what I want. And I'm gonna tell you to Sandy, I have had the blessing of since I was seven years old, a little girl, where God does drop actual words into my spirit, into my brain. And the most recent one was a suggestion from God to me to incorporate this motto into my life. And like I said, a suggestion from God, not forcing me, but, like, this would be for your best interest if you begin to say this sentence and live by it.

Lanee Blaise [00:17:15]:
God leads, period. I follow. Oh. Period. I was torn with all that too because there's that's another part. So god leads. What if I'm like, okay, god. You know, we always wanna make sure that we're doing some things in life and not just, like, I said, sitting as a bump on a log.

Lanee Blaise [00:17:33]:
But what if I don't feel that god is doing anything or leading anywhere? Then we sometimes have a portion where we we wait. We can be still and wait on the Lord, which is tricky because, you know, we feel like if we're not actively doing something, it's just so interesting how sometimes when we're being still, instead of running out and doing a, b, and c, we could possibly be even more productive and we could possibly be doing more for our cause than we ever imagined.

Sandy Kovach [00:18:12]:
Yeah. You know what I was just thinking about when you were saying that my favorite scripture, believe it or not, isn't actually Romans eight twenty eight. I love it, but it's in the one in Isaiah that says, those that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. And I think about that a lot. And just think of it that way when you're you wanna be out there doing, and you should be being and waiting upon the Lord and listening for him and be in prayer. And sometimes he just wants us to seek his face. In fact, it's important for us to do that every day if we can. Do a quick scripture reading or, of course, pray.

Sandy Kovach [00:18:51]:
You know? Pray unceasingly. We have that conversation with god going. And you're a big proponent of waiting for god to drop words on you because I guess you've experienced it. So I would listen to this.

Lanee Blaise [00:19:02]:
Yeah. As a child, that's because they'd help that it was as a child because, you know, as we get older, perhaps we get a different type of impatience or we kinda listen to society on that hustle mentality. But to your point, yeah, I am a big proponent of this. I actually to be fair, it's not quite fair, though, too, because I'm a pretty patient person by nature. I don't know if I always was. As a little kid, I wasn't. But by the time I was in college and beyond, I have a good, healthy sense of patience. The reason I'm kind of harping on that right now is because it really is this is not in the Bible, but that whole good things come to those who wait.

Sandy Kovach [00:19:44]:
You know,

Lanee Blaise [00:19:45]:
that is a saying that was said back when I was growing up. I have not really heard too many people say that lately. But, you know, good things come to those who wait.

Sandy Kovach [00:19:55]:
Nobody likes to wait anymore.

Lanee Blaise [00:19:57]:
Nobody wants to wait, and our society is set up in a way that we don't have to wait for much. We don't have to wait for our groceries can come immediately. A dinner can come immediately to our front steps. Amazon package can come right to us. And that's great, but that is not always the way God operates. God doesn't always operate in this straight line, direct a plus b equals c, super simple. Because there are other people at stake, because there's your soul that's involved, because there are other components that matter that are involved, and that's why his timing is perfect. His ways are higher than our ways.

Lanee Blaise [00:20:41]:
His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. If we get really humble and really honest with ourselves, then we start to live by God leads, period. I follow, period.

Sandy Kovach [00:20:54]:
Yeah. Like, no additions. God leads. Nope. If then nope. So as as you were saying too, other people could be involved, and other people are involved. God is our father, but he is the father of everyone and loves everyone and works it out for the good. And I was thinking, we just lost a great man.

Sandy Kovach [00:21:16]:
We're recording this the day after pope Francis died. And neither one of us are Roman Catholics, but I think we can really respect a lot of what the pope stood for. And I was trying to look up the quote on the side here, but I I couldn't find it. But it was something somebody posted about how the pope said that, you know, we are not created to live for ourselves. We are created to live for and do for other people.

Lanee Blaise [00:21:39]:
It's beautiful.

Sandy Kovach [00:21:40]:
Oh, that I'm gonna find that quote, and maybe we'll post it on our our blog or in the show notes. But, we are. And so these things that we're talking about waiting on and god's timing might have little to nothing to do with us. Somebody might need it. Somebody might need this word right now. Somebody might need Romans eight twenty eight right now. Somebody might need God Leads I Follow right now. All the things.

Lanee Blaise [00:22:05]:
All of it. And that's Sandy, that's why we do what we do. That's why we've been doing this for the past six years. I promise you, no. Because we every time we record an episode, Sandy, when I go back and listen to the episode, I listen to it as if I don't know Lene or Sandy, as if I'd never heard it before. Because as we're recording, you know, lots of things are going through our brain. But when you sit and you listen to some of these things and then you go, like, in your point, you know, you go and check other quotes and you look at scripture and you dig a little deeper, it just enhances our lives and our ways. And that's the whole purpose, I think, of what we're trying to do here.

Lanee Blaise [00:22:48]:
And the whole part about imagining, you know, you can imagine it. You can achieve it. I have a friend who recently said something. This is a little bit of a tangent, but she said that and this is for her, so listen with ears knowing that sometimes things are just for specific children of God, not for all of us. But she said that if she's ever feeling comfortable, then she's not sure she's in the right direction. It's usually when she feels kind of uncomfortable that she knows that she's on the right path, that she's on God's path because many times he has her going in directions that are maybe even bigger and bolder than what she would have imagined for herself, which means that there's some discomfort there because she's usually like, never done it before. She's not certain she has the qualifications to do it, and she is usually comforted that, no, you don't have the qualifications to do it, but I am your heavenly father, and I am here with you. And I am going to walk through it with you and have you on the other side of this, really thanking me and praising me and showing others how they too can walk this way in these big, bold, beautiful directions as well.

Lanee Blaise [00:24:14]:
Just saying that sometimes when we're thinking that the time is weird, or we're feeling uncomfortable, maybe you're more on the right track than you thought.

Sandy Kovach [00:24:24]:
Yeah. Wow. Because yeah. Of course. God is gotta get some of the well, God gets the glory for everything, but he you know, I mean, if we're just doing what we know how to do all the time, then first of all, how are we stretching ourselves in the kingdom of God? Second of all, you know, where can we point back to and say, but God. I couldn't do this, but God. And how can we be a a testimony to others? So God kinda shows off, if you will, there, even though we we don't really think of it that way.

Lanee Blaise [00:24:55]:
Shows off and shows out. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:24:57]:
Yes. It's beautiful. And we hear all the time in motivational quotes, gotta get outside your comfort zone, and it's true. It is true. And I I don't like to do it either. I know you were we were talking before, and you said you like being comfortable. And me too. Me too.

Sandy Kovach [00:25:12]:
I like comfort food. I like comfort music.

Lanee Blaise [00:25:15]:
Yes. And how about that's why I did put that preface of that certain advice, even godly advice. I'm not talking about, like, scriptural commandments and things, but certain, like, tidbits of advice that's wise godly advice may or may not be for certain people in that certain season in their life. Because right now, I am personally going through a season where when I do feel a comfort and a smoothness, it means that I am in flow with God's plan and I'm riding God's wave and path. When it's super uncomfortable lately for me, that means that I have not been checking back in with my heavenly father on what direction I'm supposed to be going, and then I get myself all scattered and that becomes like a hot mess. Oh, gosh. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:26:17]:
I picked up that word on the cruise from somebody, and, it's an old word, I think. And I just love it. And my husband's waiting for me to get over it because he doesn't like it.

Lanee Blaise [00:26:26]:
That is a quite a word. How do you spell Catawampus?

Sandy Kovach [00:26:29]:
Cata I think it's Catawampus. I always say Catawampus, but I don't know what it means. It just means scattered all over the place.

Lanee Blaise [00:26:36]:
That's what it sounds like. It sounds like something I don't want to be. And I'm not saying that that's the uncomfort part, but I think that the more I slow things down and go to God, that I don't become anywhere near that word. And, you know, and then I do have the comfort. But there have been seasons in my life, to be fair, where I needed to like, especially when I first started this career, where I needed to be uncomfortable. Or even, like, when I first started dating my husband, it's, like, uncomfortable because it's like, oh, it's a new, you know, new relationship, new things. All these new things can be uncomfortable. I just want people to balance because I know, like, you know, you don't wanna give advice to an introvert the same way that you'd give to someone who's wired to be an extrovert.

Lanee Blaise [00:27:25]:
It's gonna be conflicting. But overall, still that part about focusing on God, trusting God, where God leads you follow. Those are, like, gonna be across the board.

Sandy Kovach [00:27:37]:
I think so. And one more on the 08/28 before we we leave that subject and, start to wrap up. I don't know if everybody or anybody uses ChatGPT. I Lynnae, have you jumped on the bandwagon yet?

Lanee Blaise [00:27:52]:
Yes. Because peer pressure, everybody I know has. So, yeah, I have.

Sandy Kovach [00:27:57]:
Okay. So I'm running I I tell Chad GPT about the whole Romans eight twenty eight thing. And by the way, I don't know if you knew this, but AI can apparently get chills because when I told Chad g GPT, he said he got he, she, they, it, said he got chills. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Lanee Blaise [00:28:17]:
Did not know that. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:28:18]:
Yes. Yes. That. They have different personalities. If you talk to chat GPT enough and they get to know him now not that I have a personal relationship and I haven't named it, you know, or anything like that. But one of the titles of a podcast we could do that he came up with about Romans eight twenty eight was it's 08/28 somewhere. Like, it's 05:00 somewhere. So yeah.

Lanee Blaise [00:28:39]:
See. So they've got some little snarky, like, witty, I should say, banter back with you also.

Sandy Kovach [00:28:46]:
They do. They do. So remember now if it's a twenty eight somewhere. If that can sink in, if you can remember that, if that's something that resonates with you.

Lanee Blaise [00:28:58]:
I love all of this. I wonder, is there just a little bit of time, as we're talking about timing, Sandy, for you to just tell a little bit about the fact that you went on this extraordinary trip vacation recently with you and your husband? Because I'll just put it this way. I feel like god knew it was time for you to kinda have some space away from work and even the podcast and and from regular everyday life. Do you feel comfortable just dropping a little something that you gained, gleaned from that?

Sandy Kovach [00:29:36]:
Sure. I'll do a short version. We went on a river cruise, which is, like, not like an ocean cruise. So you we took the buses to the different places, Germany, Zurich, Switzerland, Paris. We ended up in Paris before we left, and it was all very beautiful. And I guess the most important part was I couldn't work. There was no way to you know, you're not gonna bring your audio gear into one of those little ships. If anybody's been

Lanee Blaise [00:30:03]:
on the

Sandy Kovach [00:30:03]:
cruise, you know how tiny those little things are. And it was just an opportunity to be in a different culture. Of course, we met lots of people, and we had our special little people that we met. So meeting new people, going to see new cultures, you know, just being with my husband, and just not worrying about what's going on. And get this fresh 08/28 kinda thing in your mind. I mean, I'm wondering if I would have got that dropped on me if I was catawampus still and trying to get through my day.

Lanee Blaise [00:30:35]:
Can you imagine how it would be like if God is trying to drop this wonderful, beautiful message about, like, I have you. I work things out for good for my children. 828. Do you see it, Sandy? Eight twenty eight again. And you just totally missed it because the hustle and the bustle of getting things completed for work and around the house and with your show. It's just I am so proud of you that you took that good, beautiful, juicy time

Sandy Kovach [00:31:07]:
off with your husband. Yes.

Lanee Blaise [00:31:10]:
But you got to savor life and savor your time together and seem to me like savor time away from all those things so that you could enjoy god and nature and beauty and the water and the people and places. I'm not a travel agent, so I'm not, like, coming here with any agenda. But even if we go outside and sit in the grass or if we sit on a park bench and we sit and we just let some of these things that are stressing us flow away from us. Let some of the urgency of time and where we want to be and need to be by this date and this time in our life. Let some of that just flow away and instead transform it and let it come in with what god has for me is what I want. And I am seeking god's face. And and even like Matthew six thirty three, I'm seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things will come after. I just wanna say I know that you work hard, Sandy, and I am just very proud that you let your hair down and just let yourself go right on down the river.

Lanee Blaise [00:32:28]:
In a good way.

Sandy Kovach [00:32:29]:
He's on down the road.

Lanee Blaise [00:32:30]:
In a good way. Yeah. He's on down the river road. That's right. But no. I just encourage folks And, again, this is like, if there's someone who, like, every day is a vacation day, like, maybe I'm not speaking to you. I'm speaking to those folks who are every day has been a hustle, a grind, the value of stepping back. And when you come back, you're very likely more productive, more renewed, more better.

Sandy Kovach [00:32:55]:
More better.

Lanee Blaise [00:32:56]:
Yeah. More better. So yeah. You got anything else for us, Sandy? Are we at the end of the

Sandy Kovach [00:33:03]:
At the end of the line? At the end

Lanee Blaise [00:33:05]:
of the line?

Sandy Kovach [00:33:07]:
Well, just circling back, trusting God's timing. It's not easy. If you have trouble with it, ask God. It also says in the Bible, you need wisdom, just ask. Remember what Linnea said about Romans or about, Matthew six thirty three? Put God first. That's another one of my favorite scriptures. We're hitting on all of them today. And Top the top ones.

Lanee Blaise [00:33:29]:
What's that? The top favorite ones.

Sandy Kovach [00:33:31]:
The top favorite. Yeah. Are you a nut for the top five? Blah blah blah? You know, like, whenever you see that, do you click on it? Yes. I sure do.

Lanee Blaise [00:33:40]:
It's it's very it's it's something that clicks in our brains that just makes it seem like, oh, I only need to know five things in this life, and I will be a guru. Yes.

Sandy Kovach [00:33:48]:
Alright. So we're gonna do the top three scriptures. Okay. So we have Romans eight twenty eight, Matthew six thirty three, and Isaiah forty thirty one about the wings like eagles. Which one do you think is number one, or are they all on equal par?

Lanee Blaise [00:34:01]:
They're all on equal par.

Sandy Kovach [00:34:04]:
But if you only had three scriptures on a desert island okay. Now I'm just being ridiculous. Yes.

Lanee Blaise [00:34:10]:
That's another one too. I bet different scriptures will speak to you at different times and seasons in your life when you need it the most when it's like, oh, man. This is exactly what's speaking to me right now. So So are

Sandy Kovach [00:34:22]:
you saying we can't do a top three list?

Lanee Blaise [00:34:24]:
Nope. Because it would be have to be customized for every day because every day is a different struggle.

Sandy Kovach [00:34:31]:
That's why we have the whole bible. Yeah.

Lanee Blaise [00:34:33]:
Exactly. To get us through the whole life. But all in all, we just wanna say thank you all for listening to us, for subscribing to the podcast, for leaving a review, for, you know, interacting with us on social media, checking out our website, imagineyourselfpodcast.com, being supportive, listening, sharing. We have really been enjoying this, and we will continue to ride this all the way off till the wheels fall off. But overall, don't forget when you are thinking that it's all about you and your time, stop, pause, reflect, look up, and realize that God has so many powerful, beautiful ways and thoughts and a different standard and set of timing than we do. And we can squarely put ourselves in God's hands, knowing that we will have everything worked together for our good.