A prayer by Christina Rossetti. ( 1 Thessalonians 5 v 23 )

 I want to leave a prayer with you,not a long prayer, a short prayer ,and a very meaningful prayer, it is a prayer  by Christina Rossetti,let me tell you a little bit about her.She was born in London in 1830 of Italian parents,who arrived in London as asylum seekers.Christina became famous by her poems,which were highly acclaimed.She was a very religious person ,and her writings reflected that,but she had a very practical side to her religion,for she spent most of her life volunteering at a hostel for prostitutes in London. She died  at the age of 64 of cancer.so here is the prayer.

                                       'O Lord, grant us grace never to parley with temptation,

                                       never to tamper with conscience, never to spare the right eye,

                                       or hand, or foot that is a snare to us; never to lose our souls,

                                        though in exchange we should gain the whole world.'