It’s a beautiful day outside. Sun is shining on the fresh snowfall we had last evening. The world looks so pristine…picture perfect…except for the fact that it’s April 3! Oh well, I’ll breathe it all in.
This morning I am beginning a 3 week teaching series on ministering to the sexual minority. So how to pray before going into such a topic? “Oh God, oh God, oh God!” Which actually works, sometimes.
But a Trappist monk by the name of Thomas Merton wrote a beautiful prayer, especially for such a time as this. I share it with you…
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 I think I’m 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 that I have that desire in 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.
Therefore, I will trust you always.
Though I may seem to be lost in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Amen
Finding Beautiful 
Great poem and so true! Praying people hear your heart today and throughout this series and that we all continue to learn to love others well.