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[James Handsfield]

Thank you, Sally.  It is a wonderful prayer, and it helps.  And thanks to everyone else for their prayers and thoughts.

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Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Mar 22, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Jim
> 
> Thomas Merton's prayer may capture some of what you're feeling right now:
> 
> 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 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.