Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
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 hast.
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.
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A brief quotation from "Letters to Young Poets"
Ranier Maria Rilke
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves.
Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you,
because you would not be able to live them-
and the point is to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will gradually,
without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
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John 16:12-14
Jesus said to his disciples:
"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
but he will speak what he hears,
and will declare to you the things that are coming."
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"No rush, Sara!" I could hear YOU said so to me.
"Though it might seem like you are on the lowest path of life. Though it might seem like you are walking on a never ending dark tunnel, without any sign of light.
Though it might seem that there's no way...
No need to worry, trust ME that I know what's best for you!
Keep walking, keep fighting, keep doing your best for you and others... and soon you'll get there.
There's a time for everything!
You need to experience the SUFFERING, before you know what JOY is.
You need to walk on ANXIETY in order to understand FAITH
You need to fight your best, so you will understand what the meaning of process is
and you need to fall down, so you will realize....
I'm always here for you"
I heard YOU, whispered it softly to my heart..
So God... Stand beside me during the process of living the question.
Remind me not to ask why and seek for the answer
Help me to remember that one day at the right time, YOU will reveal the answer to me.
Lead me through the way always and I know...
Soon I'll be there.
Lazy F Camp- Ellensberg
28-30 May 2010
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