A Prayer for a Life Well Lived

Yesterday I went to a memorial service for Jean Scott.  There was a prayer in the bulletin by Thomas |Merton that was one that Jean meditated on every night before she turned out the lights. If this was the prayer of Jean's heart no wonder she was such an amazing woman! 

"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 indeed 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 through 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