October 20, 2025

Sometimes we know where we are headed and can actively prepare for it. But more often than not we end up going somewhere we had no idea about, and we are being preparedwithout even noticing it.

Let’s get curious about how we are being prepared, not what we are being prepared for. Today we will get grounded and curious about what we have had to let go of, to heal, a new skill we have acquired or strengthened, etc. Our listening portion today is a beautiful one…

Above all,trust in the slow work of God.

We are quitenaturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.

We shouldlike to skip the intermediate stages.

We areimpatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.

And yet itis the law of all progress

That is madeby passing through some stages of instability –

And that itmay take a very long time.

And so Ithink it is with you;

your ideasmature gradually- let them grow, let them shape themselves, without unduehaste.

Don’t try toforce them on,

as thoughyou could be today what time

(that is tosay, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will)

will make ofyou tomorrow.

Only Godcould say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.

Give our Godthe benefit of believing

that God’shand is leading you,

and acceptthe anxiety of feeling yourself

in suspenseand incomplete.

-PierreTeilhard de Chardin, SJ

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