My goodness, how deeply this spoke to me this morning:
“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 that 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 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, “Thoughts in Solitude”
I question the why and the how and the who and the where and the what, every day, and every night as I contemplate the day.
But there is someone calling, and I am trying to follow the voice. A whisper of the wind without words. “Come, follow me.”
(h/t Ed Cyzewski, Evangelicals for Social Action)