Greetings!
As we move into the second half of the academic year, it is important to recall the following excerpt from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. His words make me think of any transition, and perhaps most especially as we walk the midline in this very polarized world. Hopefully, this prayer will provide some wise counsel and stress the importance of prayer in our lives right now.
“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 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 spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing, that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”
We, in the OCS, continue to keep you and your communities in our prayers.
Kristin and the OCS team
KRISTIN DIXON | Superintendent
Office for Catholic Schools | Archdiocese of Seattle
