{"id":986,"date":"2006-05-19T05:26:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T05:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/05\/prayer-for-guidance.html"},"modified":"2006-05-19T05:26:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T05:26:42","slug":"prayer-for-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/05\/prayer-for-guidance.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Prayer by Thomas Merton &#8211; <em>Thoughts in Solitude<\/em><br \/>\nMy 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 meean that I am actually doing so.<!--more|inline--><br \/>\nBut 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.<br \/>\nTherefore 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.<br \/>\nHT: Kerry Doyal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prayer by Thomas Merton &#8211; Thoughts in Solitude 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. 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