“A Prayer of Unknowing”

A Prayer of Unknowing

by 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 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. 
Amen.

Peace, dwight