12.31.2025 | New Year's Eve

On this, the Eve of yet another new year.  I wanted to share The Merton Prayer.  It is one of my favorite prayers and one that, I hope, will bring comfort as we look forward in faith, hope, and love.  

“The Merton Prayer”
By Thomas Merton
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 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.
Amen.