Resolutioning

Back to Thomas Merton’s prayer, one I have written of before.  I picked it up today and the first line jumped out at me: “My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.”  It occurs to me that at this end of year time, when we are making resolutions, planning out how next year is going to be, and more importantly, how next year is going to be different, that this line from Merton’s prayer should be in the mix also.  For all my planning, my intentions, my resolutioning, the reality is that “I have no idea where I am going.”  If I need proof of that I only need to recognize the path that brought ne to here, now, was only partly of my own making.  I am not suggesting that this should stop me from planning, intending, or making resolutions – only that in doing so I should recognize that it is not all about me.