Ek lees graag ’n gebed voor wat deur Thomas Merton geskryf is:
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 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.
Vir baie van ons dit moeilik om ons verlorenheid, ons hoop en begeertes eerlik te verwoord. Dis nie altyd maklik om te erken wanneer ons die merk mis nie, of dalk die verkeerde besluit geneem het nie. Maar Merton se gebed, net soos die Psalmdigter se gebede, herinner ons dat ons ook met ons tekortkominge na God kan gaan en dat ons kan vertrou dat God ons weer sal lei op maniere wat ons nie altyd verstaan nie.
Mag hierdie gebed vir jou help om ook die volgende tree op jou geloofspad te neem