Our only task here – just like in all of life – is to fulfill God's will. And not the "God's will" as we might wish or imagine it, but the will of God that He reveals to us daily in the situations He puts us in. His will meant for us the twenty-four hours of each day: the people, places, and circumstances that He has prepared for us in this specific timeframe. God knew that this was important for both Him and us at that moment, and He wanted us to experience exactly these situations, and not some abstract principles or subjective desires to "fulfill God's will".
No one needs to ponder what God’s will is, because it clearly manifests itself in everyday situations, as long as we learn to view everything as God sees it and as He sends it to us. The temptation lies in overlooking these things (since they are always the same, trivial, mundane, and ordinary) and in seeking another, loftier will of God somewhere outside this material reality, to better fit our own ideas about it.
However, to take this truth of God as our own, to accept each moment in its light... means to experience true joy and inner peace flowing from the certainty that we are striving to fulfill God's will in everything and always, which is ultimately the purpose of our existence. This is precisely why we were created. There is no greater certainty that we could ask for, no greater inner peace that we could experience.
(Walter J. Ciszek SJ /1904–1984/, memories of a labor camp in Russia, He Leads Me, chapter 3)
