Above all, trust
in the slow work of God.
We are quite
naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to
skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient
of being on the way to something
unknown, something new. And yet it is the law
of all progress that it is made by
passing through some stages
of instability—and that it may take
a very long time.
And so I think it
is with you; your ideas mature gradually –
let them grow, let
them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force
them on, as through you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and
circumstances acting on your own good will)
will make you tomorrow.
Only God could say
what this new spirit gradually forming
within you will be.
Give Our Lord the
benefit of believing that his hand is leading you,
and accept the
anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
--Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin, S.J., Hearts on Fire
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