What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive
are upside down until we listen to the Voice of God. It seems that we
will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our
independence from the rest of God’s creation is the way in which
salvation is obtained. Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss
and death. This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any
second to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. And since
our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.

“There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine
contradicts what You would have me do. It is Your Will that I be wholly
safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my
Father, gave as part of me.”