I've been chewing on these thoughts from French priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin for the past few days, and allowing them to sink deep into my soul. They have been like a healing balm for me, and I wonder if they might be the same for someone else today too. Impatience is one of my greatest enemies.
God is a good leader and a good shepherd. Whatever we're going through, we can trust that He is forming us, slowly but surely.
"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 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.
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 circumstances 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."
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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