Something I Came Across

I came across this prayer today. And for today it fit my life situation well, so I wanted to share it (or at least record it) here.

Thomas Merton’s 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 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 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”

Thomas Merton
Jan. 31, 1915 – Dec. 10, 1968
20th Century American Trappist monk