I really like the floating analogy. Except for me it is a small boat in a river. I have control over the boat, I have no control over the river. Of course that doesn't mean I can't steer the boat based on what is being shown to me by the river. There are other things and other boats floating on that river, it is a very lar ge river you know. I also have to accept that I have no control over the other boats on the river.
To me submitting to the will of god is acknowledging that you are floating down that river called life and accepting what the river gives to you.
Arrrrrgh! I can't find the words to convey what I feel. Guess I'm going to have to let go of that for a while also. They'll either come or they won't.
Take what you want, leave the rest.