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.
J-9thxciv, an Orthodox Christian