“…maybe at the end of a long day of unspoken brokenness
that is all we can pray, all that matters, all that counts:
Lord, make all we want only be
God’s will. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Nothing else” (Ann Voskamp).

I’ve been learning through the course of my life that God knows a lot more than me what I need. He knows the desires of my heart better than I. He knows what will benefit me and what could potentially destroy me.

I’ve noticed that sometimes it seems like God says no a lot more than yes. But maybe that’s because I take all the yes answers for granted. And even when He says no, it’s really a yes to something different, something better, something I would have asked for had I known what God knows.

So my prayer lately has been Your will be done. No ifs, ands, or buts. Just asking God’s will, no matter what.