Gregory's most characteristic message is his consideration of perpetual progress (we are where we are; we cannot be elsewhere on the road. It is no good to worry that we are not where someone else is, for that would only hinder our journey.)
What is important is only that, like St. Benedict, we vow each day to begin again and like Abraham, each day to build an altar where we can "check in" with the One Who leads us in the dark to we know not where. We can know only Him Who leads us; we cannot know where we are going, nor how we will get there, nor when we will arrive. Faith knows, as Julian of Norwich tells us again and again, that "all things and all manner of things shall be well." And we know we shall see that for ourselves, because the One Who leads us is trustworthy.
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I like this definition of faith.
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