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.