{"id":27803,"date":"2013-06-23T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T11:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/in-the-face-of-lifes-perils-ca\/"},"modified":"2013-06-23T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T11:50:36","slug":"in-the-face-of-lifes-perils-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/in-the-face-of-lifes-perils-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"In the face of life’s perils, can we really trust in the Lord?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have to face the contours of our existence. Not to do so seems to side-step the gift of freedom and to minimize our desires for happiness. Not knowing where we are going is OK. It is not the <\/i>how, but the <\/i>what of our lives that matters. For the Christian, the only reasonable way to engage one’s desires, one’s moral life, freedom, faith, other people is to trust in someone who is greater; the One who comes before all else that IS. The famed Thomas Merton begins to expand what our existence consists in. Give some thought to Merton’s guidance.<\/i><\/p>\n


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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going<\/u>. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n


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But I believe<\/u> that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope<\/u> I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.<\/span><\/p>\n


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And I know<\/u> that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust<\/b> you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear<\/u>, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nThomas Merton<\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts In Solitude<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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