I think of this: above all, trust in the slow work of God. Naturally, we are always impatient to reach the goal. (…)
I think it is the same for you. Your thoughts are slowly ripening, let them grow and shape without haste. Do not try to "force" them, as if you could be what time (that is, grace and circumstances affecting your will) will make you tomorrow. Trust our Lord that His hand is leading you well through the darkness and the "becoming," and accept – out of love for Him – the anxiety of feeling uncertain and somewhat incomplete.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter from the front, to his cousin, July 4, 1915;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914–1919, Malvern 2021)
