This prayer, written by Sir Francis Drake in the 1500s, seems especially relevant as we await what is to come.

"O Lord God,

when thou givest to thy servants

to endeavour any great matter,

grant us also to know that it is not the beginning,

but the continuing of the same unto the end,

until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory;

through him who for the finishing of thy work

laid down his life, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ."