It's good to be home, although it was hard to leave Beth. Thank you all for your very sweet comments and especially your prayers for Beth and for me.
When I was at the hospital the other day with her, I picked up a prayer booklet provided as a ministry of the Pastoral Care Department at Saint Thomas Hospital. One of the prayers is called
HOPEFULNESS
Oh 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 will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death I will not fear, and you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to make this journey alone.
~Thomas Merton
When I was at the hospital the other day with her, I picked up a prayer booklet provided as a ministry of the Pastoral Care Department at Saint Thomas Hospital. One of the prayers is called
HOPEFULNESS
Oh 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 will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death I will not fear, and you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to make this journey alone.
~Thomas Merton
7 comments:
What an inspirational post. I LOVE this sentence:
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.
Thanks for sharing this, Kat.
I'm glad you're home, Kat. Know that you and Beth remain in my prayers and thoughts.
Kat, I love your post. I am glad that you are back home. We missed you. Thanks for sharing this prayer!
That is an awesome message. I have been right there before.
I agree with Jean: "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 had to read that sentence twice myself. Very powerful.
Kat,
Thank you for sharing these words of hope and encouragement!
So glad you got to spend some time with Beth.
I can only imagine how hard it is for her right now.
Jan
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