Friday Night Thoughts (In Solitude)


Nashville, TN:

 "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 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."

- Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

Paris, 2008