9 February 2021
A Prayer During Anxious Times
My Lord God, I have no
idea where I am going. I do not see the road in front 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, I will 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, 79.
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