Thomas Merton – Spirit Abounds https://spiritabounds.com Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:21:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spiritabounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-Site-icon-web-32x32.jpg Thomas Merton – Spirit Abounds https://spiritabounds.com 32 32 194300094 The Merton Prayer https://spiritabounds.com/the-merton-prayer/ Sat, 31 Jul 2021 18:20:19 +0000 https://spiritabounds.com/?p=3343 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.

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