Et dikt i avhandlingsrushet

Noen dikt er til for å deles - og hvis det finnes andre avhandlingsstressa sjeler der ute: dette diktet er til dere. Selv fikk jeg det i den åndelige veiledningsgruppa jeg er en del av.

"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 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."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pust inn. Pust ut. Sov. Skriv. Du kommer til å klare deg.

(Og er vi ikke heldige som får bruke ett eller to semestre på å skrive om noe vi virkelig er interesserte i og at vi får veiledning av mennesker med erfaring, visdom og kompetanse? Selv midt i stresset har vi mye å takke for!)