This is a favorite prayer/reflection, especially for Advent. It is called Trust in the Slow Work of God. It was written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. 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 it 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 wil make you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new Spirit gradually forming in you will be. Give God the benefit of believing that Gods hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Trust in the slow work of God.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 06:42:41 +0000
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