a weekend prayer

I like this prayer:

“Dear God, I have no idea where I’m 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 that I am following your will
Does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe this:
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
I hope I have that desire in everything I do.
I hope I never persist in anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road,
Though I may know nothing about it at the time.
Therefore I will trust you always, for thought I may be lost—and in the shadow of death—I will not be afraid, because I know you will never leave me to face my troubles all alone.” (Thomas Merton).

May this prayer carry you through the weekend!