Above All
Trust in the Slow Work of God
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.
Yet it is
the law of all progress that is made
by passing
through some stages of instability
and that
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.
Do not 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 in 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.
Above all,
trust in the slow work of God,
our loving vine-dresser.
Teilhard de Chardin
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