Yesterday I talked about trusting God 100%. Today, as I was attending a workshop at the Christian Community Development Association's National Conference one of the presenters used this prayer to start his session.Patient Trust
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.
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.
Michael Harter, SJ, editor, Hearts on Fire, Praying with Jesuits (Chicago, Loyola Press, 1993, 2005) 102-3
As I read along with the presenter today it was as if God was talking directly to me. God's perfect timing is beautiful.
I would have to agree with this prayer. with today's fast pace society. its all about getting it now. i needed it yesterday, it needs to be done asap. Technology has not helped us as humans to avoid the traps of instant gratification. Add in now all the devices that have us connected at all times it makes it tough to slow down and look at the long term. whats going to come from this in the future not now. this goes for just weekly or even daily things everything is so fast now its hard to be grateful for the day to day, week to week, month to month let along the years. versus to look at
ReplyDeleteJames 5:7-8
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint
Marcus
Wow,
ReplyDeleteYou really are very insightful in patient trust. Again, true words and the verses are another reminder to solidify all of this. Thanks for your input into this conversation.