I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do …

Thomas Merton
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I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home. ✨ Thomas Merton (1974). A Thomas Merton Reader, Image
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