I'm going through a very challenging time this Lent. I found an excerpt of this prayer on a personal blog of a friend. Then a day later, more bad things were happening, so I found the complete prayer. Dear stranger, if you are in a difficult time, here is a prayer for you!
Thomas Merton 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 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. “The Merton Prayer” from Thoughts in Solitude Copyright © 1956, 1958 by The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. Used by permission of Farrar Straus Giroux. Stealing this text from The Merton Prayer | Reflections (yale.edu) God bless them God bless you
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