Prayer

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 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 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 Through the Year with Thomas Merton

step into the mouth of those lonely dreams
and be swallowed up in their honesty,
the searching is over.
untie the harness of expectation
relax in the arms of freedom
what you seek can be found
listen.