Embracing the Slow Work of God's Love

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. [00:01:48]

And so I think it is with you. Your ideas mature gradually. Let them grow, let them shape themselves without undue haste. Do not 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 in you will be. [00:02:18]

Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. [00:02:41]

The fact that he worked with, you know, bones and fossils and things that took tens of thousands of years to be discovered that were kind of waiting to be excavated means I think he knew something about patience and the way that the world worked and the way that we are not the center of it in the way that we or I often so like to think we are. [00:03:07]

This idea that we can exist and we can know that God is mindful of us and there's no pressure in that. We are part of a very large tapestry. I love that and there's just such a sense of Freedom the way that you talk about it, that I don't have to be in a hurry because if I'm in a hurry there's always this sense of pressure that's attention. [00:03:53]

I find that God goes slowly in his educational process of man. We would say human beings 40 years later. We would be PC about it. Okay, oh thank you for laughing in my attempts to try to be like aware. Oh yeah, I'd like a way like aware. Okay, 40 years in the wilderness as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted points to his basic educational philosophy. [00:06:24]

God walks slowly because he is love. If he is not love, he would have gone much faster. Love has its speed. It is an inner speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we were accustomed. It is slow yet it is Lord over all other speeds since it is the speed of love. [00:07:12]

It goes on in the depth of our life whether we notice it or not, whether we are currently hit by storm or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk, and therefore it is the speed the love of God walks. [00:07:46]

I think one of the things like thinking of that three mile an hour God, Walking with God again, that's not something that yeah it's interesting the Bible doesn't say run with God. No, and the Bible doesn't say run with God. [00:09:15]

There is something about like physically restraining myself from when I feel like I'm in a hurry and active and need to go go go. If I can slow my body down through breathing or through walking slowly and then think about God Walking In The Garden in What's The Phrase the cool of the day, like that's so beautiful and where else do I want to be in my life but they are walking with God. [00:09:36]

Attention is love, you know, it's focused love and I can receive that from God. That's a practice that helps me. [00:10:31]

Time as a precious commodity instead of a gift, and it's a gift so take a deep breath today three miles an hour because the moment when you see your little baby smile at you goes real fast and then you wish you had it back. They never come back but another one comes and another one comes. [00:10:44]