Patient Trust

As this internship with Word Made Flesh comes to an end I am still left with unknowns and lack clarity on where my future will lead me. In 2 weeks I will be boarding a plane to take me back to Muncie, IN where I will pick up life and begin another process of transitions, reentering, and continue this process of discernment.
In one of our spiritual formation times as a community we read aloud "Patient Trust" by Pierre Theilhard De Chardin. I have been reflecting on this reading for the past month or so and sitting with these words. I cannot explain this sense of peace that I have as I face these unknowns, but I know where it comes from. As I sit at my Savior's feet I sit with patient trust, allowing Him to do His continued work in my life.

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 progress
      that it is made by passing through
      some states 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.