{"id":4486,"date":"2011-01-20T21:32:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T04:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2011-01-20T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T04:36:33","slug":"prayer-from-the-path-thomas-merton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/prayer-from-the-path-thomas-merton\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer from the Path (Thomas Merton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4487\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d83451a05569e20120a5406ee0970b-320wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4487\" title=\"merton\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d83451a05569e20120a5406ee0970b-320wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Merton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My Lord God<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where I am going.<\/p>\n<p>I do not see the road ahead of me.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot know for certain where it will end.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do I really know myself,<\/p>\n<p>and the fact that I think I am following<\/p>\n<p>your will does not mean<\/p>\n<p>that I am actually doing so.<\/p>\n<p>But I believe that my desire to please you<\/p>\n<p>does in fact please you.<\/p>\n<p>And I hope that I have that desire<\/p>\n<p>in all that I am doing.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I will never do anything<\/p>\n<p>apart from that desire.<\/p>\n<p>And I know that if I do this<\/p>\n<p>you will lead me by the right road<\/p>\n<p>though I may know nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore will I trust you always<\/p>\n<p>though I may seem to be lost<\/p>\n<p>and in the shadow of death.<\/p>\n<p>I will not fear,<\/p>\n<p>for you are ever with me,<\/p>\n<p>and you will never leave me<\/p>\n<p>to face my perils alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Thomas Merton (1915-1968)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer from the dim road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[649,805,1472,1616,2072,2249,60,3426,4135],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-christian","tag-contemplative","tag-god","tag-help","tag-lord","tag-monk","tag-prayer","tag-thomas-merton","tag-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","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=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}