Thank God for the lessons of illness and ask for care of his gifts.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
My God, I have experienced during my illness, that money and property and earthly prosperity are vain, and of no avail to help; and that we cannot by any efforts of our own regain the precious gift of health. I thank Thee for this salutary lesson. Grant me grace to heed it. Guard me, that I may not become enamored of earthly things, nor think of them more highly than I ought to think. Enable me to value my health as a precious treasure, to keep it with all diligence, and to avoid everything which would tend to ruin it.