“But
if we look forward to something we don’t yet have,
we must wait patiently and confidently.”
Romans 8:25 (NLT)
we must wait patiently and confidently.”
Romans 8:25 (NLT)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit Priest, Philosopher, Paleontologist, Geologist and prolific writer on life with God. He composed the following poem which is worth reflecting on during you daily quiet time.
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.
And yet it is a law of progress
that it 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 circumstance
acting on your own 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.
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