In time

This needs some scrutiny:

A teacher once called attention to the fiasco of Abraham and Sariah when they had to pretend to be cousins for the sake of Abraham's life, due to Sariah being so desirable to look upon. Now, typically, teachers dwell on the significance of telling a lie to save a life, which is very interesting...but, this teacher pointed out the significance of long pauses in such grand places and the amount of learning and wisdom that could not be gotten anywhere else and how significant this understanding would become to his later life.

I am often fascinated by that little literary magic trick or diversion of an audiences attention so that heroes can develop in a way that makes a plot twist possible.

I was thinking about how this applied to my apparent "spinning of wheels" or "going no where" when actually it is allowing me to develop. Particularly, this can be seen in my tatting progress. Right now, I can barely do even basic things, so I spend a great deal of time not accomplishing anything of value to others, but I am increasing my abilities to the point where such basic things will not require my attention, like basic math. I bet without thinking, you know what 2 plus 2 is. Whereas my children consider it magical that I just KNOW it without counting fingers. :)