“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I don’t see the road ahead of me. . . . 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 for all that I am doing. . . . And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.” —Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude (1956)
