26 July 2009

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"

2 comments:

  1. wow. that is good. thanks for sharing that. I needed it.

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  2. This made me cry, because this is my prayer. I don't know where my life is going, Kristen. I don't know the step He would have me take and can't see the road He is leading me to. All I know is that my desire is to walk towards Him in all that I do, but I find myself looking around, wondering if I should take a step to the left, to the right, a step back or stay standing still dead in my tracks. However, I feel that if or when I do, I'll fall and be incapable of standing up tall and finishing the race.

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