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My children love to ask my husband and me to tell stories from our childhood or from the first years of our relationship. Last week, they asked me laughingly, “Did
Thy will be done. How often do we pray this simple prayer? It is prayed at every Mass. It is prayed morning and evening in the Liturgy of the Hours. We pray it six times with every rosary. It is at the heart of the Lord’s Prayer. After first praising God’s name and before we dare to ask our own petitions, we declare that what we want first, before all else, is for God’s will to be done. But do we know what it is we pray for? What does God want? More specifically, what does God want for my life? How are we to know?