Thy Will Be Done

It seems very easy to say that we will surrender our will to someone, until we try it and realize that it is the hardest thing we can do if we carry it out as we should.  The Lord knows what each of us can bear, and,when he sees that one of us is strong, he does not hesitate to fulfill his will in him…  And he sets a very high value on what you can give him and desires to recompense you for it since he gives you his kingdom while you are still alive.  Would you like to see how he treats those who make the prayer “Your will be done” from their hearts?  Ask his glorious Son, who made it thus in the Garden.  Think with what resolution and fullness of desire he prayed; and consider if the will of God was not perfectly fulfilled in him through the trials, sufferings, insults and persecutions which he gave him until at last his life ended with death on a cross.

– from The Way of Perfection (1566), by Teresa of Avila