For Confidence in God

Dear 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 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 though 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