Trust.

As our reflection together, I’d like to share this piece by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I invite you to create space and time to read it intentionally when it works for you. Perhaps we will all receive different messages from these words. My hope is that you would feel the Voice you need most today.

“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 (1881 - 1955)