Pilgrim Soldier

At the end of a long post in my Google Reader this morning I came across the following gem of a prayer from Thomas Merton. Despite knowing where we will be living in just over 2 months much about the corps in Godalming is still totally unknown, as if the future beyond the middle of next year. So I’m joining with Thomas Merton to pray:

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.

I pray that this will be my constant prayer at all stages of my walk with the Lord.