This article by Pastor Pete (how's that for a handle?) is right on and ends with a great question.
Alternatives to talking behind someone's backI'm getting back into the rhythm of this
and finally, here is a letter that has spoken to me this week by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to his young neice
Patient Trust
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.
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