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Ned was not quite tall enough to see over the dashboard of the car I was driving. "Hurry up , Mom!" he urged. But he was too young to read the road signs that said 45 miles per hour.

As I began to apply the brakes, he demanded, "Why are you stopping?" "There's a school bus that has just stopped," I explained.

As soon as we started again, he urged, "Pass him, Mom." He was too small to see the double yellow line.

I thought to myself, How like me when I pray! Spiritually I am too young to read the road signs, too small to see what lies ahead. Yet how often I am guilty of telling God how to run things.

We may make requests, but never insist on having our own way. … We may pray in simple, childlike faith; urgently, persistently. But we must always pray, "Thy will be done."
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~ Ruth Bell Graham, "Legacy of a Pack Rat"