A prayer

A beautiful prayer by Thomas Merton, and one I can really call my own:

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 to 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.