first thing's first

I've kept my thoughts, dreams, hopes, and fears in a journal since I turned 18. Now, that I'm taking on a new city this blog is my way of documenting my new adventure. Before I get into the details of my next chapter I'd like to share my favorite prayer. It helped me this past semester to feel oh k about not knowing what's happening next...

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 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 hope that I will never do 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. Therefore I will trust You always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for You are ever with me, and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.

-Thomas Merton