ONE DAY AT A TIME

 A cliche from a sappy song I know. I'm having trouble with titles these days. This is not a cliche.  Known as the Prayer of Thomas Merton. Pretty much describes how I feel most of the time. So I keep putting one foot in front of the other. One    step    at    time. One   day    at    time. 

There are days when I definitely resemble this gnarled old oak tree near the coast of Devon in England. If itls still standing. Must have been close to a thousand years old when this picture was taken. Wonder what prayers have been said under those branches over the centuries. And how deep those roots go beneath the grass. 

"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 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."