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A Prayer of Thomas Merton |
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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 l think that l am following your
will does not mean that l am actually doing so.
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Five Finger Prayer |
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Thinking Small |
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I have always found
it ironic that we easily forget the big things, the events that seem of great
importance: Who won the Academy Awards five years ago? Who won the Cup final?
We quickly tend to forget these things. What we do not forget, with all the
healing and grace it brought, is who was nice to us all those years ago on the
playground at school. Conversely, we remember, and remember vividly, with all
the scars it brought, who laughed at us on the playground and who made fun of
our clothes or called us stupid.
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In The Desert, God Is Close to Us |
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In her biography, The
Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day shares how, shortly after her conversion to
Catholicism, she went through a painful, desert time. Her prayer at the time
was wrenching, naked. She describes how she laid bear her helplessness,
spilling out her confusion, her fears, and her temptations to bitterness and
despair. In essence, she said to God: “l have given up everything that ever
supported me, in trust, to you. I have nothing left. You need to do something
for me, soon. I can’t keep this up much longer.
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Facing a New Direction |
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“Repent and believe in the good news!” These are the
first words out of Jesus’ mouth in Marks gospel and they are meant as a summary
of the entire Gospel.
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