Not My Will

Not my will
 but Thy will be done
 sounds good in theory
 but what happens
 when you realize
 your life is meant
 for service alone
 and that there is
 an impeccability
 to that that can’t be found
 with anything else?

What happens
 when the futile attempt
 to achieve lasting fulfillment
 through acquiring one’s wants
 is replaced by the quiet rightness
 of finding oneself powerlessly
 conveyed to the hands
 and will of the Lord?

I’ll tell you what happens:
 for the very first time
 in your life everything finally
 makes perfect, faultless sense.