Thank you, Lord, for Merton’s words: so concise and so compelling in their comfort and their challenge…
I need to be reminded, Lord: no matter how confident and cocky I am in my discernment – I can’t know or comprehend the whole of all that’s going on…
And no matter how sure I am of my insight and my foresight, I have no way of predicting just what will happen next…
I need to look beyond all the troubles in the news arresting my attention – and tempting me think: it’s all done, it’s over, there’s nothing I can do…
I cannot be defeated. I have to keep on searching – now, in the present moment – for the challenge these days bring: for all the possibilities, the what-if-opportunities, the wisdom of the ways you open up and bid me come…
Bid me come, Lord, and embrace the work of moving on… moving toward tomorrow with the courage of my faith and the hope that comes of trusting: all shall be well, all shall be well, all shall be well when I’m with you…
Amen.
