O my God, your loving providence transforms sorrows, difficulties, trials, and dangers into means of grace, lessons of patience, and channels of hope. Grant us good will to use and not abuse those privileges. By your great goodness, keep us alive through this dying life, that out of death you may raise us up to immortality. For his sake who is the life, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
-Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)