Patient Trust (part 1 of 3)

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.

- - - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ