LORD JESUS: I pray to be kept in Your---God's---Love
that I may, someday, soar starward, above
the time and place of my death on earth, and the site of my grave;
preserve in Your Mercy, my soul, that You died, and rose from death, to save.
I pray, also, that gratitude will inform my entire conversation
(despite the ever present shadow of temptation):
thankful for the Orthodox Faith, the Joy of Common Salvation,
which is and shall always be my soul's chiefest exultation
among the redeemed, the Orthodox Church, that great congregation.
Starward, an Orthodox Christian