I have thought considerably this day of the importance of being prepared to do the will of my heavenly Parent. What is more desirable than to have the privilege of doing those things which are well pleasing to God; to have such a frame of mind, that the habitual and uniform desire of the heart shall be, 'Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?' But I find a strange propensity to desire ardently those things which would seem to be a peculiar gratification to myself. I would desire to have such a frame of mind that I might be ever ready to say, 'Not my will, but thine, be done.' I would not desire any thing that would not be for the glory of God, and in accordance with the will of my Savior. Sometimes I almost feel that I am not my own, but I find my heart repeatedly desiring those things from which I had almost supposed it was forever separated.

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