Advent Devotions
All are invited as we Make Room this Advent season.
Hope and Trust
Today’s author is Prince of Peace member Carol Swanson
After my dad retired, he took up cross stitching as a hobby. While on a visit with Dad, he was flipping through a cross-stitch catalogue. He showed me this quote from Thomas Merton and asked me what I thought of it. I feel like that sometimes, I said. Well, I forgot about it, but when I visited him for Christmas months later, I unwrapped his gift, the cross-stitched psalm expressing the hope and trust in God’s loving presence. I share it with you.
The Road Ahead
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 actually am 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 lost
and in the shadow of death I will not fear,
for you are forever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my troubles alone.
––Thomas Merton
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