Recently, I heard someone say, “God’s will is not the actions I take, it’s the attitude I take to those actions.”
That’s one view.
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” (Chapter 5, Big Book)
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” (Ibid.)
I think it really does mean the actions.
More from Chapter 5:
“We are in the world to play the role He assigns. Just to the extent that we do as we think He would have us, and humbly rely on Him, does He enable us to match calamity with serenity.”
And from Chapter 6:
“Much has already been said about receiving strength, inspiration, and direction from Him who has all knowledge and power. If we have carefully followed directions, we have begun to sense the flow of His Spirit into us.”
“We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision.”
“We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will ...”
“As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day ‘Thy will be done.’“
And from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions:
“And we will be comforted and assured that our own destiny in that realm will be secure for so long as we try, however falteringly, to find and do the will of our own Creator.”
In other words, I really am to do God’s will, not my will nicely.