I Can't. You Must. May 12, 2017 One of my students, Sister Jerilyn, shared this prayer with our class last night. The prayer is attributed to Oscar Romero. I looked this prayer up online, and one commentator astutely noted that this prayer was Romero's personal way of praying Jesus' prayer of surrender in the Garden of Gethsemane: "Not what I want but what you want" (Mt. 26:39).