Amen & Amen

This week has been spent fasting and praying. Spurred on by a collective community believing for incredible things for this year, I have devoted these seven days to pressing in and listening hard.

Today, as I was reading and meditating, I came across this beautiful prayer written by a notable monk who served in New York City in the early twentieth century. During his ministry, he wrote:

“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.
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.“

- Thomas Merton, Thoughts In Silence