{"id":13270,"date":"2013-10-29T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2013-10-29T14:39:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:39:59","slug":"famous-thomas-merton-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/famous-thomas-merton-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Thomas Merton Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mertonstudents\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Today, I want to share a prayer with you written by Thomas Merton because it’s one of my favorites.<\/p>\n

This is a great go-to prayer when it’s hard to find your footing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes we run out of things to pray when everything seems a mess; or if we are “in-between”. In those times I appreciate the psalms and I also rely on faithful brothers and sisters whose words have helped me be verbal when I am unable, but still dearly want to feel connection with the source of all love and goodness.<\/p>\n

Be blessed today.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Thomas Merton,\u00a0\u201cThoughts in Solitude\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a9 Abbey of Gethsemani<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[5354,795,961,4377,5928,5053,5298,37,1742,4716,1763,4857,1987,2072,48,2074,2077,2645,60,2723,4079,4540,5646,4577,3421,3426,3514,3711,3742],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-blessed","tag-connection","tag-desire","tag-do","tag-everything","tag-fact","tag-following","tag-hope","tag-i-am","tag-if","tag-in","tag-lead","tag-leave","tag-lord","tag-loss","tag-lost","tag-love","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-psalms","tag-right","tag-road","tag-share","tag-source","tag-things","tag-thomas-merton","tag-trust","tag-will","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13275,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions\/13275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}