This is a prayer from the monastic spiritual leader and author, Thomas Merton.
It has brought be hope and strength and faith in recent uncertain times.
I post it because I don't doubt that others are now or will at some point need the comfort of these words.
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"
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I pray this prayer every day lately. One of my favorites. Thanks for sharing it, and it was excellent to meet you this past weekend. Hope we can run into one another again sometime.
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