Thanksgiving: Grace is everywhere
Weiss was right about "thy will be done" being the essential part of every prayer. He is also correct about there being no escape for philisophers (and I would add atheists) from the questions if religion, although I would have said spirituality instead. What unites atheists, believers and those in recovery (spiritual but not necessarily religious) is the primacy of love (who is God, whether we call Her by name or not - Google Shekinah).
True humility and true love can only be reached by gratitude, which is the response to and request for grace. The God of the cross is infinitely humble. God needed nothing from Jesus. We needed God to identify with our brokenness. We do not seek virtue to please God. We depend on God to help us find virtue, not by self-obsession over are vices but to see ourselves and others the way God does, with loving humility. Only that surrender to God's true will brings it about in our lives and the lives we touch.
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