Dear Holy Spirit

I just want to check in . . .

I’ve been working at this Substack for a couple of months now.  There hasn’t been a lot of feedback, but I press on.  When all is said and done, I feel this is my witness of a sort . . . my speaking out from the heart, and speaking up perhaps, for others.  But what do you think?  How do you think it is going?

My Lord God, 

I do not know where I am going,
and yet I know you go before me,
leading me along a path I only dimly see.

You stretch out your hand and I step forward, knowing you will show me the way.

Lead me, inspire me, and guide me along the way I must go to do the work you have in mind for me.

Above all things, I want to do that work,
and be found worthy of your love and trust.

AMEN

This was inspired by Thomas Merton’s famous prayer of unknowing:

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.

“The Merton Prayer” from Thoughts in Solitude, The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani.