Longing

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. - Ps 23, 1
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. - Ps 51, 10

These words have been in my heart this morning, by the Spirit's grace. They're good words for me to focus on, I think.  Also, this quote:

Do with me, Lord, as you will and know to be best. - St. Philip Neri

And this longer prayer:

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. - Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

With regard to all of these, I know myself well enough to recognize that I often want my own will in full awareness that it isn't God's plan for me.  These prayers are therefore the as-yet-unfulfilled cry of my heart.