Prayer and "God's will".
You should learn now to be obedient to the will of the Almighty. This is how I try to be. Every morning I ask Him to tell me what He wants me to do; then I see Him working through my hands and brain, and everything goes as He wishes.
Paramahansa Yogananda • Man’s Eternal Quest: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 1
“The will of God is not a ‘fate’ to which we must submit, but a creative act in our life that produces something absolutely new, something hitherto unforeseen by the laws and established patterns. Our cooperation consists not solely in conforming to external laws, but in opening our wills to this mutually creative act.”5
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
God. I am willing to surrender my fears and to place my will and my life in your care one day at a time. Grant me the wisdom to know the difference between the things I can and cannot change. Help me to remember that I can ask for help. I am not alone. Amen.
ACA WSO INC. • ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.