Have you ever wished on a star? How about on a wishbone or when blowing out the candles on a birthday cake? Did you really believe a star, a bone or a cake could grant your wish? When you were a kid, you probably did, although you didn't think of it that way. 
    But what ever made us think such things had the power to grant wishes. And why do we make wishes at all? Usually, we make wishes because we don't think we can get the things we are wishing for any other way. It's like the billions of dollars that are spent on lottery tickets every year despite the terrible odds of winning the big prize. We keep trying because we don't think we can get that kind of money any other way and we think having piles of money will solve all of our problems. It won't. In fact, there are so many stories of lives that have been ruined by winning the lottery, by getting our wishes fulfilled, that books have been written about it. Wealthy people still have failed marriages, deadly and crippling diseases, children who are drug addicts or crooks, nearly all of the same problems that everyone else has. 
    So should we just stop wishing? No, we shouldn't. But we should stop wishing for what we think we need or what we think the world needs and let God, who knows what we need make those decisions. Our wish should not be to win the lottery, to get a new car or to marry a billionaire. Our wish should be for God's will to be done for us, through us, and for the world.