Oh my God, by Whose loving Providence, sorrows, difficulties, trials, dangers, become means of grace, lessons of patience, channels of hope, grant us good will to use and not abuse those our privileges; and of Thy great goodness, keep us alive through this dying life that out of death, thou may raise us up to immortality. For his sake, who is the life Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
—Give us Grace: An Anthology of Anglican Prayers, ed. Christopher L. Webber (Harrisburg: Morehouse, 2004), p. 305
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