Praying the Hours -- Merton's Prayer

Friends,
This is one of my favorite prayers which I have committed to memory. This can be used for any "Hour" or appropriate situation. I have called it the "Merton Prayer" but of course he wrote many prayers.

My Lord God,
I have no idea were 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 understand 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 will I 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 troubles alone.
Amen.