Dear God, you are supremely just; every instance of suffering in this world must therefore have its cause
and usefulness. I accept the reason for this affliction that I am experiencing as an expiation for my past wrongs and as a trial for the future. Good spirits watching over me, give me the strength to bear
it without complaint; enable it to be for me a healthy warning; may it increase my experience; may it combat my pride, ambition, foolish vanity and selfishness, and may it thereby contribute to my advancement.

Dear God, I feel the need to pray to you to give me strength to bear the trials you have sent. Allow the light to shine brightly within my spirit so that I may appreciate the full extent of a love that afflicts me in order to save me. I submit myself with resignation, dear God; but woe unto me! Human beings are
so weak that if you do not uphold me, I fear that I will succumb. Do not forsake me, Lord, for without you I am nothing.