{"id":473,"date":"2005-10-25T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=473"},"modified":"2005-10-25T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:47:00","slug":"the-prayers-of-monk-thomas-merton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-prayers-of-monk-thomas-merton\/","title":{"rendered":"The prayers of Monk Thomas Merton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.<br \/>\nI do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain<br \/>\nwhere it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that<br \/>\nI think I am following Your will does not mean that I am<br \/>\nactually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You<br \/>\ndoes in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that<br \/>\nI am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart fro that<br \/>\ndesire. And I know that, if I do this, You will lead me by the<br \/>\nright road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I<br \/>\nwill trust You always though I may seem to be lost and in the<br \/>\nshadow of death. I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and<br \/>\nYou will never leave me to face my perils alone.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nThanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/jlo4jc\">James<\/A> for the prayer. <i>Maybe<\/I> there is still some good on Xanga.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of one of my theme songs by the Newsboys&#8230; probably where they got their inspiration<\/p>\n<p>You are the author of knowledge<br \/>\nYou can redeem what&#8217;s been done<br \/>\nYou hold the present and all that&#8217;s to come<br \/>\nUntil your everlasting kingdom<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I don&#8217;t know where all this is going<br \/>\nOr how it all works out<br \/>\nLead me to peace that is past understanding<br \/>\nA peace beyond all doubt<\/p>\n<p>You are the God of tomorrow<br \/>\nTurning the darkness to dawn<br \/>\nLifting the hopeless with hope to go on<br \/>\nYou are the rock of all salvation<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I don&#8217;t know where all this is going<br \/>\nOr how it all works out<br \/>\nLead me to peace that is past understanding<br \/>\nA peace beyond all doubt<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Lord, you are the author<br \/>\nRedeeming what&#8217;s been done<br \/>\nYou hold us in the present<br \/>\nAnd all that is to come<\/p>\n<p>Lord, we don&#8217;t know where all this is going<br \/>\nOr how it all works out<br \/>\nLead us to peace that is past understanding<br \/>\nA peace beyond all doubt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-prayers-of-monk-thomas-merton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The prayers of Monk Thomas Merton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-7D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}