{"id":387,"date":"2021-01-01T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=387"},"modified":"2021-01-01T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T13:07:17","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/01\/a-prayer-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MertonPicture-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" width=\"370\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MertonPicture-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MertonPicture-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MertonPicture-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MertonPicture-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MertonPicture.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><br><strong>A prayer for the first day of this new year:<\/strong><br><br><em>My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.<br>\u00a0<br>I do not see the road ahead of me.<br>\u00a0<br>I cannot know for certain where it will end.<br>\u00a0<br>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.<br>\u00a0<br>But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.<br>\u00a0<br>And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.<br>\u00a0<br>I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.<br>\u00a0<br>And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.<br>\u00a0<br>Therefore I will trust you always, though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.<br>\u00a0<br>I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><strong>Thomas Merton, from his book <\/strong><em><strong>Thoughts in Solitude<\/strong><\/em><br>\u00a0<br>Every day in 2021, may you know the reality of God\u2019s presence &#8211; no matter what path you find yourself on.<br><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer for the first day of this new year: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.\u00a0I do not see the road ahead of me.\u00a0I cannot know for certain where it will end.\u00a0Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/01\/a-prayer-for-the-new-year\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,128],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guidance","tag-thomas-merton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}