Trust, not clarity.

When the brilliant ethicist John Kavanaugh went to work for three months at "the house of the dying" in Calcutta, he was seeking a clear answer as to how best 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 that he had borne thousands of miles from the United States:
"Pray,” he asked, “that I have clarity."
Surprisingly, she said firmly, "No, I will not do that."
And when he asked her why, she said, "Clarity is the last thing you are clinging
to and must let go of."

Kavanaugh commented that she always seemed to have the clarity he longed for, [but] Mother Teresa laughed.

She said, "I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God."[1]

Citation: Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust (HarperCollins, 2000); submitted by Dave Goetz; Wheaton, Illinois, cited in PreachingToday.com, More Perfect Illustrations for Every Topic and Occasion (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2003), 290-291.