Asking Everything of God in Prayer
“It is our wisdom to believe ourselves permitted and encouraged to ask anything and everything of God, with the single reserve of submission to His wiser and better will. Are you poor? Ask your Heavenly Father, and He will either give you riches or make poverty a greater blessing. Are you sick? Ask God; and He will either grant you recovery or give you reason to praise Him forever for every pang you suffer. Are you embarrassed and perplexed in your worldly affairs? Ask God, and He will either deliver you from trouble or make it the means of bringing peace and joy into your soul. Are you in want of anything? Go to your best Friend, pour out the full tale of your sorrows into His attentive ear, and be not afraid to believe that He will give you to drink of the infinite river of His own pleasures.”