Speaker: Shea James, Director of Young Disciples & Outdoor Ministries
Shea James: Hi, I'm Shay. James. And I serve as the director for young disciples and outdoor ministries of the West Virginia conference. And it is good to pray with you today.
Shea James: I wanted to start our time in prayer here at the prayer labyrinth at Saint Mark's United Methodist Church so that you can envision yourself walking this path as we pray together today. I'll be sharing one of my favorite prayers which is by Ta Lahar de Chardin and it's called patient trust. Please join me in prayer above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient 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 to 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. 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 goodwill will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say with this new spirit gradually informing 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. I'm in.
