Thy Will Be Done

The essential form of prayer is: "Thy will be done." 

By prayer we share in the will divine, but also, as Riviere profoundly notes, the will divine weds ours.  It comes home to us with its light and its efficacy.  We leave off being a resistance to become a collaboration. 

There is a point in Creation where God is freely, willingly, and consciously accepted.  We conclude an agreement with what is best and consequently with what is best for us as well.  By desiring good, we allow him on this point to realize the best.  We benefit by all the benign cooperations which our appeal to God, our direct movement towards God, permits us to fix around us and to canalize. 

We constitute the mighty kernel of a harmony: "as the Creator, so the Conductor" (Saint Gregory); "as it were, the great Symphony of an Ineffable Composer" (Saint Augustine).  Prayer is the sovereign unfolding of our liberty.