Be patient
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now…
Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin
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…
A Prayer of Unknowing
by Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I…
Jesus Red and White
We did not give you an “artificial Jesus” even, (an unkindness too mild for mission); we gave you a dangerous one, no two-edged sword of truth coming out of his mouth but a dagger in…
Kaleidoscope
The pure purpose of color spans out like a kaleidoscope rotating in prismed phrases that only an ocular linguist could decode, stained glass spilling into a slow-motion film with a spattered plot of golds and…