The tangle of weeds in the garden -- I awoke to them suddenly, but they developed slowly.
What else is now visiting me slowly, Lord, that I might attend to? Attention today might forestall trial tomorrow.
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What lovely gift is now growing slowly, that I might husband that it grow faster, stronger, more beautifully? Love today may bring greater joy tomorrow.
Slow growth, Lord: let me recognize slow growth.
– from the mountain
Consider:
What is now growing slowly in my life?
Reading:
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
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“Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of the greatest lessons to accept with serenity the coming of what takes time.”
— Simone Weil, Waiting for God (1951)
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“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
— Galatians 6:9 (KJV)
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