Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, writer, seeker, mystic who was born in 1915, died in a freak accident on this day in 1968 while attending an interfaith conference interfaith conference of Christian and non-christian monks in Bangkok , Thailand.

                                               Psalm 37:4

  

Take 

delight 

in the 

Lord, 

and he 

will

 give 

you 

your 

heart’s 

desire. 

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 that 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 perils alone. 

                     - Thomas Merton from Thoughts in Solitude