TRUST IN GOD
...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 so it is with us...
Do not try to force... as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your good )
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 Tielhard de Chardin, SJ-
