Tag: hope

Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin

Picture taken of quote from the book, Prayers For Your Future Husband by Robin Jones Gunn and Tricia Goyer

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 progressthat 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 spiritgradually forming within you will be.Give Our Lord the benefit of believingthat his hand is leading you,and accept the anxiety of feeling yourselfin suspense and incomplete.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, excerpted from Hearts on Fire

Dayspring Word of the year quiz

Ok, this is really cool! I had already chosen my word for 2022, which is hope, but I wanted to take the quiz from Dayspring out of curiosity just to see what it would give me. And, it gave me the word Encouraged!

So, I decided to look up the meaning and it says, “having more confidence or hope about something” 😁👍

If you’d like to find out yours, you can click on the link below

https://www.dayspring.com/yourwordquiz/