Tuesday's Trust - Patient Trust

Tuesday's Trust

Patient Trust

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.


Yet it is the law of all progress that is made


by passing through some stages of instability


and that 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.

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 own good will 


will make you tomorrow.


Only God could say what this new Spirit


gradually forming in 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.


Above all, trust in the slow work of God,


our loving vine-dresser. 


Amen.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (via Ian Cron) (via Flowerdust)

Poem - Patient Trust by Pierre Teihard de Chardin

Picture and Poem: Thanks to http://www.flowerdust.net/2009/10/16/accept-the-anxiety/

Poem: Thanks to http://www.worship.ca/docs/p_62_ptdc.html