Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.

We would live 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.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God,
our loving vine-dresser.