Doing God's will is my prayer

To pray is to listen to God, and listening is not just lending one's ears or paying attention.
To listen means to make what you have heard a part of your life, a part of who you are.
To listen to God means to be transformed by Him, so that what He wants becomes what I want. It is not so much renouncing what I want so as to accommodate what God wants, as discovering that deep within me I want what God wants becausee what God wants is nothing else but my true happiness.
Many times it is not easy to understand this because I often begin with the premise that what God wants is contrary to what I want.
I pray that I may understand that God only wants for me true joy and fullness of life.