Prayer of Unkowing by Thomas Merton

 I love collecting quotes and there are quotes that changed my outlook in life and saved me from despair. There are quotes that has become special in my life. But right now i think i would love to collect prayers. haha.This one, The prayer of unknowing has touched something in me. Leaving me with a peace that comforts. So im sharing this one to you. Hope it will bless your heart. 

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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.

Being mindful of suffering caused by careless or malicious speech

Today I ride a jeepney with a Grandma with her seven grandchildren.  Seven of them! They were cousins for sure. And they were looking so neat. I was instantly reminded of my childhood and my grandma too. I was looking at them and smiling when suddenly the grandma turn to one of the girls and said "Your mom does not send us money anymore. I wish your mom died instead of your dad. You are so clumsy. How are you going to manage once you’re a maid?"

Grandma, WHATTT???

 I can feel the energy inside the motorcycle.  The shame, the pain was just…it hurts. I want to grab the girl and cover her ears. I want to tell her, "Don’t believe any prediction that does not empower you. Don’t believe what you know in your heart isn’t right and true." I want the hurt to stop.

I hope adults would be careful with the words they say in front of children. I hope they would be aware enough to know that children have tender hearts. I wish people could be sensitive enough to feel other people’s pain. And be kind.

Hurtful words wound. It wound so deep it mars the soul. And sometimes the wound takes a lifetime to heal. Adults’ carries anger and resentments in themselves that sometimes it is so easy to let it all out to children. It's like magma overflowing from the mouth of a mountain destroying everything it touches. Not to a child, please not to a child. 

What Pains Love