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.…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.”
-Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, SJ
Mary. She was profoundly familiar with the slow work of God. The nine months that she had to get used to the idea of the Messiah inside of her. God with us. With her. She must have been impatient. She was undoubtedly on the way to something unknown, something new. But God was growing something profound inside of her in the slow waiting…something that would change the world.
We want every child at Daystar to hear the same message. Whether they walk through our doors in grief, in anxiety…whether they’ve lost a friend or lost a parent, we want them to trust that God’s hand is leading them. His hand is with them. They are not alone. Daystar is a little yellow house that gives witness daily to the slow and faithful work of God.
He is moving. He is moving in the hurt and in the worry. He is bringing something good to fruition in the waiting. In the 8 year old girl with anxiety. In the 15 year old boy who lost his dad. In the 12 year old who feels lost and alone. Even in the midst of those things, we—they—are enlarged in the waiting. And we have the privilege of waiting with them.
“That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarge in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy…That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.”
Romans 8:24-26, 28
We’re so grateful for your support of Daystar Counseling Ministries. We’re honored to join you in the waiting this Advent season.
The Daystar Staff
