{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/656fd0cb4030a60011809ebf/68026099f4bf76eb41c9ef11?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"God Is Not in a Hurry","description":"<h2>Scripture&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>Isaiah 40:28–31 (NRSV)</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Have you not known? Have you not heard?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>The Lord is the everlasting God,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>the Creator of the ends of the earth.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>He does not faint or grow weary;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>His understanding is unsearchable.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>He gives power to the faint,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>and strengthens the powerless.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Even youths will faint and be weary,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>and the young will fall exhausted;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>they shall mount up with wings like eagles,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>they shall run and not be weary,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>they shall walk and not faint.</p><p><br></p><h2>Refrain&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p>God moves slowly, but never late.</p><p><br></p><h2>Quote&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>We are quite naturally impatient in everything&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>to reach the end without delay.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>We should like to skip the intermediate stages.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>something new.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Only God could say what this new spirit&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>gradually forming within you will be.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Give our Lord the benefit of believing&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>that His hand is leading you,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>in suspense and incomplete.”</p>","author_name":"City Arts Dept"}