Here’s one of the most-quoted of modern prayers,
from this century’s best-known Western mystic:
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 that I do not 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.
Thomas Merton, ‘Thoughts in Solitude’, Farrar Straus
and Cudahy, 1958, p.83.
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