from Pierre Tielhard de Chardin:
Trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We would 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...
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 them 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 accepting the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, "This is the way, walk in it." Isaiah 30:21
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