-We are quite naturally impatient in everything,
to reach the end without delay.
-We should like to skip the immediate 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 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 undo haste.
-Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace & circumstances acting on your 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
His hand is leading you,
-And accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.