a prayer of contemplation...

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.


But the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

And I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that 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 fact my perils alone in the wilderness or even in the crossroads of life.

-Thomas Merton