I am afraid sometimes we think of prayer in an altogether opposite way, as if by praying we persuaded or influenced our Father in heaven to do whatever comes into our own minds, and whatever would accomplish our foolish, weak-sighted purposes. I am quite convinced that God knows more about what is best for me and for the world than I can possibly know, and even though it were in my power to say, “My will be done,” I would rather say to him, “Thy will be done.”
