Patient Trust In Ourselves & The Slow Work Of God
 

Sometimes I wonder how I come across things, but this is something I just read on the internet. Hope it helps someone. It helped me.


Patient Trust In Ourselves & The Slow Work Of God

by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are all, 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 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

WizeDeb,

Thank you so much for this post. I am printing it out and putting it on my board at work. Love it!

I've always liked the phrase: "time takes time" yet this reading perfectly describes what that is all about. Thanks for the encouragement.

accept the anxiety of
feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete

WOW. Acceptance. Always acceptance. Sitting with discomfort, but not acting rashly or in haste for an instant "fix." Trusting the process of life................

Thanks for this - great stuff deb.
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