A Prayer
Posted by Pastor Kye
This is a prayer that I have been praying for a week or so now. Maybe you’ll resonate with it and pray it as well:
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 my desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope that 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.
- Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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Wow Pastor Kye, this prayer spoke volumes to me today. This is exactly how I have been feeling the past few days with my ever present job situation. I realize now that during the past year I have been putting God in a box and leaving him on the shelf and not allowing him to do the great work he can do in my life. I have been stressed about what to do about next year but after reading this prayer I feel so at peace to know that if I trust in God he will lead me to the right path and never leave my side.