Violence is quick; healing is slow.
Ask the bone, the tree, the heart.
Love takes time.
We crave instant success
not for love of the present moment
but fear of it:
we want to move on.
But our sudden outbursts
of self-assertion will expire;
God will remain.
God prays for you
for ten thousand years
before you are born.
Don’t be fooled by the Instant Way.
Nothing good happens there.
Love outlasts its little deaths.
Commit yourself to the long and gentle path.
Yes, evil ones may undo you in a moment—
this is the truth of the cross.
But God has been preparing your resurrection
since the beginning of time,
and even now it ripens, and is ready.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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