When we started the SHOUT, we told ourselves that we were seekers. We came into the training seeking the Will of God in our lives, where He can use us to the full and what life He wants us to live for. The journey can be scary, but the thought that He is holding you is assurance enough.
The following prayer by Thomas Merton in “Thoughts in Solitude” may well be a good prayer for all of us seekers:
“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.”