"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 progress
that it is done by passing through some states of instability
- and that it may take a very long time.
And so it may be 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 circumstance 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.
Above all trust in the slow work of God,
our loving Vine dresser."
"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 progress that it is done by passing through
some states of instability - and that it may take a very long time.
And so it may be 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 circumstance
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.
Above all trust in the slow work of God,
our loving Vine dresser."