{"id":817,"date":"2020-10-01T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/seniorstudio\/?p=817"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:24:09","slug":"trust-in-the-slow-work-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/2020\/10\/01\/trust-in-the-slow-work-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust in the Slow Work of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Above all, trust in the slow work of God.<br \/>\nWe are quite naturally impatient in everything<br \/>\nto reach the end without delay.<br \/>\nWe should like to skip the intermediate stages.<br \/>\nWe are impatient of being on the way to something<br \/>\nunknown, something new.<br \/>\nAnd yet it is the law of all progress<br \/>\nthat it is made by passing through<br \/>\nsome stages of instability&#8211;<br \/>\nand may take a very long time.<br \/>\nAnd so I think it is with you;<br \/>\nyour ideas mature gradually&#8211; let them grow,<br \/>\nlet them shape themselves, without undue haste.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t try force them on,<br \/>\nas though you could be today what time<br \/>\n(that is to say grace and circumstances<br \/>\nacting on your own good will)<br \/>\nwill make of you tomorrow.<br \/>\nOnly God could say what this new spirit<br \/>\ngradually forming within you will be.<br \/>\nGive Our Lord the benefit of believing<br \/>\nthat his hand is leading you,<br \/>\nand accept the anxiety of feeling yourself<br \/>\nin suspense and incomplete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211;Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-817\" data-postid=\"817\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-817 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-prayers","category-sr-studio","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/art411412\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}