Thursday, June 9, 2011

Above all trust in the Lord

This hangs above my stove:

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 progress that is made by passing through some stages of instability - and some that may take a very long time.

And so I think it with you.
Your ideas mature gradually - let them grow, let them shape themselves without undue haste.
Don't try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say whit this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.
Give our Lord the benefit of believing tha His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
Pierre Tielhard de Chardin SJ

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