"Above All, trust the slow work of God"

It is unfortunate that I should have missed the sermon preached by The Rev. Rod Welles on April 20 at SsAM.

At the conclusion of his sermon, he read a quote written by Pierre Teihard de Chardin, described by Anodea Judith as "a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution."

Rod has quoted from de Chardin numerous times, but this quote particularly resonates with me at this time.

Above all, trust the slow work of God.
We are, quite naturally, impatient 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 that progress is made by passing through some state of instability, and that may last a very long time...

Only God can say what this new spirit 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"

Thank you Rod for the quote and SsAM for reprinting it.