Another portion from David Brainerd’s diary. 

Reflected on the goodness of God to me in the past year.  Of a truth God has been kind and gracious to me, though He has caused me to pass through many sorrows.  He has provided for me bountifully so that I have been enabled, in about fifteen months past, to bestow to charitable uses about an hundred pounds New England money, that I can now remember.  Blessed be the Lord, that has so far used me as His steward to distribute a portion of His goods.  May I always remember that all I have comes from God.  Blessed be the Lord that has carried me through all the toils, fatigues and hardships of the year past. As well as the spiritual sorrows and conflicts that have attended it.  Oh that I could begin this year with God and spend the whole of it to His glory, either in life or death.