Give Us The Assurance

Lord of both the living and the dead, grant to us the assurance of our faith, amid all the sorrows, trials, and temptations of our mortal state, and especially when we walk in the valley of the shadow of death, that there is reserved for us in heaven an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, which fades not away, and that our graves shall verify your glorious truth, "I am the resurrection and the life.."  We pray in your blessed name.  Amen.