Giving thanks, honor and praise to the Almighty God and everlasting Father, the Lord and Giver of Life, who has ordained this proliferation through the works of my hand, when he saw fit to endow me with the gifts of writing and spiritual insight. It is only by his mercy and divine impartation that I have gained spiritual knowledge and understanding, and grown in the wisdom of his divine grace.

“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.  When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. (2 Samuel 22:2b-7, KJV)