The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

 

 

 

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 for 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 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.