As everyone is celebrating the incoming of the New Year, I find I am thoughtful.
I want to be a better person this year. I want to work harder to discern God's Will and His Path for me. I want to follow that Path....if I can figure out what it is.....
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, 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.
my most favorite prayer, written by Thomas Merton
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