God never promises certainty
My Lord God, I have no idea where I an 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 aim 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, A Book of Hours, 118
Take, Lord, and receive my liberty,
My memory, my understanding
And my entire will,
All that I have and call my own.
You have given it all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace,
That is enough for ms.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Rules for Discernment of Spirits, 234.
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