“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 the desire in all I am doing.
I hope 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