Nothing too early, nothing too late

The part comes in late and the whole job stalls. The patient codes ten minutes before your relief shows. The rush hits the second you've broken down the line. You stand there feeling like the universe has it in for your schedule specifically — everything arriving at exactly the wrong moment.

Marcus answered that with something closer to gratitude than complaint: "Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee" (Meditations 4.23, Long). The late part, the early code, the badly timed rush — each one came when it came. Your sense that it should have been otherwise is a second job you don't have to take on top of the first.

You can't reschedule what already happened. You can only meet it now, on its actual clock, instead of the clock in your head where everything would have lined up.

This is the week's move applied to timing: loving what happens includes loving when it happens. The shift runs on its own time. Argue with that and you fall behind it.