God's will is also manifested to us in those things that He allows and that do not turn out as we expected, or are even totally contrary to what we desired or had insistently asked for in prayer.
It is time then to increase our prayer and to focus more on Jesus Christ. Especially when events are very hard and difficult for us: illness, the death of a loved one, the pain of those we love the most....
The Lord will make us unite ourselves to his prayer: Not as I will, Father, but as you will10. Not my will, but yours be done11. 11 He even wanted to share with us all that is sometimes unjust and incomprehensible in pain. But he also taught us to obey unto death, even death on a cross12.
If at times we have to suffer much, the Lord is not offended by our tears. But we must immediately say: Father, thy will be done. In our life there can be moments of greater hardness, perhaps of darkness and deep pain, when it is more difficult to accept the will of God, with temptations to discouragement. The image of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane shows us how we are to proceed at such times: we are to embrace the will of God without any limits or conditions of any kind, and in persevering prayer.
There will be many times in the course of our lives when we will have to make acts of identification with what is the will of our Father God. And we will say interiorly in our personal prayer: "Do you want it, Lord, I want it too! 13 And peace and serenity will come to our soul and to those around us.
Faith will make us see a superior wisdom behind every event: "God knows best. We men understand little of his paternal and delicate way of leading us to him "14. Jesus Christ will console us from all our sorrows, and we will be sanctified.
There is a providence behind every event, everything is ordered and arranged so that it may better serve the salvation of each one; absolutely everything, both what happens in the more general sphere and what happens every day in the small universe of our profession and family. All things can and must help us to find God, and therefore to find peace and serenity in our soul: everything contributes to the good of those who love God15.
The fulfillment of God's will is a source of serenity and peace. The saints have left us the example of an unconditional fulfillment of the divine will. This is how St. John Chrysostom expressed it: "I say in all circumstances: Lord, thy will be done, not what this man or that man wants, but what you want me to do. This is my fortress, and this is my immovable rock, this is my sure staff "16.
We conclude our prayer by asking with the Church: Lord and our God, to whose plan the Immaculate Virgin submitted herself by accepting, when the angel announced it to her, to incarnate your Son in her womb: you who have transformed her by the work of the Holy Spirit into a temple of your divinity, grant us, following her example, the grace to accept your plans with humility of heart17.
Hablar con Dios