REST IN THE GOODNESS OF GOD,
FOR THAT GOODNESS
REACHES
TO THE DEPTHS OF OUR NEEDS!
REACHES
TO THE DEPTHS OF OUR NEEDS!
Julian of Norwich
PATIENT TRUST
Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end of the day without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate states.
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 it 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 good will)
will make of 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 SJ
PATIENT TRUST
Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end of the day without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate states.
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 it 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 good will)
will make of 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 SJ
