...Is the greatest form of art that can exist.
Yes agreed. I call it surrender and it may not be easy but it is connected
Perhaps something to do with the world we're in — it can take ages to build the skill to be oneself. To me that feels like such an amazing thing. The word surrender is relevant and accurate. Thank you Monica. 💖
Just seeing/hearing this, and I also agree. Thank you dear one for reminding us of this.
It also reminds me of the “slow work of God” as described so beautifully in Père Teilhard de Chardin’s poem ‘Patient Trust’:
(Which argh — my phone won’t let me post a screenshot of here… wait while I attempt to transcribe it…)
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.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
excerpted from Hearts on Fire
Kim — this is one of our favorites!! Thank you so much for adding this here.
Yes agreed. I call it surrender and it may not be easy but it is connected
Perhaps something to do with the world we're in — it can take ages to build the skill to be oneself. To me that feels like such an amazing thing. The word surrender is relevant and accurate. Thank you Monica. 💖
Just seeing/hearing this, and I also agree. Thank you dear one for reminding us of this.
It also reminds me of the “slow work of God” as described so beautifully in Père Teilhard de Chardin’s poem ‘Patient Trust’:
(Which argh — my phone won’t let me post a screenshot of here… wait while I attempt to transcribe it…)
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.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
excerpted from Hearts on Fire
Kim — this is one of our favorites!! Thank you so much for adding this here.