When brilliant ethicist John Kavanaugh went to work for three months
in the "house of the dying" in Calcutta, he was seeking a clear answer
as to how to spend the rest of his life.  On the first morning there
he met Mother Teresa.  She asked, "And what can I do for you?"
Kavanaugh asked her to pray for him.

"What do you want me to pray for?" she asked.  He voiced the request
he'd borne thousands of miles from the United States: "Pray that I
have clarity."

She said firmly, "No, I will not do that."  When he asked her why, she
said, "Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go
of."  When Kavanaugh commented that she always seemed to have the
clarity he longed for, she laughed and said, "I have never had
clarity; what I have always had is trust.  I will pray that you trust
God."

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined,
into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan
for the future.  The next step discloses itself only out of a
discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment.  The
reality of naked trust is the life of a pilgrim who leaves what is
nailed down, obvious, and secure and walks into the unknown without
any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the
future.  Why?  Because God has signaled the movement and offered it
his presence and promise.

From the book "Ruthless Trust" by Brennan Manning.