The person...who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed. If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes tonight. There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping. During the stretches of waiting there is cultivating and wedding and nurturing and planting still other seeds.
Eugene Peterson, Travelling Light, quoted in The Contemplative Pastor, p3.
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