"Patient Trust in Ourselves and the Slow Work of God"
Above all, trust in the slow work of God. I am, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. I like to skip the intermediate stages. I am 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. And so I think it is with (historic preservation). Ideas mature gradually -- I should have started early and let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. I shouldn't have tried to force them on, as though (we, Prairie Skyline Foundation) could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on our own good will) will make (us) tomorrow; Only God can say what this spirit (of restructuring our organization) gradually forming within (us) will become, and (we must) accept the anxiety of feeling in suspense and incomplete. Adapted from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
Who knows what will become of us. We are heartbroken.
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