Here is the reflection of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955) titled Patient Trust. We might think it is a prayer to help us become more patient in traffic, or with a hard-of-hearing spouse, or with the too loud children in my care. I'd say it is much more than that. I'd suggest, some things invite or require not only a slow and careful read, but a repeated reading. The best rain is the rain that falls gently over a longer period of time. Big downpours, over and done with quickly, don't soak in but only run off — wasted into a ditch, drain or sewer.
Take note that the priest uses the word "grace" in the second paragraph. It is a word often misused in Catholic circles — conceiving of it as some kind of invisible thing or heavenly stuff we can purchase, win, earn or even store up (like covid era paper towels and bathroom paper). I might feel hushed at the very appearance or hearing of the word — grace.
Grace by its very nature is free — not earned, but God's gift. It is so much of God we might say it is God sharing God's own energies that are creative/re-creative — evolving and maturing of me into the full human person of God's design or maybe even better, God's dream.
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 states.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some states 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, SJ
