prepare
verb (used with object)
to put in proper condition or readiness.
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
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My disorder, if it should keep its promise of leaving me at last, will have been preparing me for the accomplishment of such a project.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage