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 [after Psalm 113:2; and Job 19:25-27 and 2 Timothy 1:12]

Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.

Lord Jesus, I humbly beseech You that I might pray

the Jesus prayer both night and day;

ten-, or twenty-fold, or even five score,

this prayer in plentiful multiplicity

even the midst of apparent dispair and dismay.

But to You, oh Lord, my Redeemer Who so effectively

saved my soul through Grace and merciful clemency,

to Whom I offer my Biblical poetry,

and my poems inspired by Orthodox spirituality:

I have committed my Faith to You; and at the hour of my death

please grant that a prayer to You shall be on my final breath

(or, if I am not able due to incapacity.

let this poem be its substitution),

and immerse me, at my dying moment, with the profusion

of Your Love and Grace that will conduct me to Your Eternity.

J-9thxciv, an Orthodox Christian