Today, I was asked to represent our parish at a special prayer service at Sanctuary Hospice in Tupelo Mississippi. We are very supportive of the hospice ministry, and have several parishioners who are very active as volunteers out there. I found this prayer from Thomas Merton that I prayed at the prayer service. It is taken from Thoughts in Solitude, published by Merton in 1956.
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 that 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. E. 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.
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