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 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 will make 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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