Patient Trust in Ourselves and the Slow Work of God
Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 7/15/2010
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 though 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-
Some day , after we have mastered the winds,
the waves, the tides, and gravity,
we will harness for God the energies of Love:
and then for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire!
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-
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I needed to read this today. I get so impatient with the slow process of change. Whew! Breathe. Rest. Trust.
Me too!
this is good. there really is no completion of the learning. Testing, grading, opinions are a weird reality. I guess bench marks have their place…. where ever that is?