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