here is a prayer I came across on our retreat at the Mercy Center. I scribbled it down and it's been lying here waiting to be put somewhere, and that somewhere is here. It is by Thomas Merton, one of my favorite writers (a rarity, I know):
"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 night road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I fear not, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."
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