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friends who we know and went to church with (back in the day) have lost their teenage son. he was just few months older than my own. it's a heartbreaking situation. please remember them in your prayers.

macfan

That's very tragic and disheartening news, Macfan.

Please tell your friends that we mourn with them, and that we send along our love and prayers of comfort and strength that they may get through these sad times of grief and anguish.

doc

thanks, doc.

A Prayer for The Mourning

Father, tonight we lift up those who have no hope of comfort, no consolation, no warmth, only the crumbs of despair and the hiss of distance. Let the power of your fatherly love break through their isolation and bond them again to your whole family in heaven and on earth. We join our hearts as your heart is joined to the bereaved, and for their sake we cry out:

For the widow and the orphan whom you bind to your very heart
For the parents who will never see their little ones grow up
For brothers and sisters separated by accident, murder, suicide, or sickness.

Lord, comfort those who cannot be comforted.

For families still waiting for their loved ones to come home
For the mothers of the disappeared
For the fathers of the silent bitterness

Lord, comfort those who cannot be comforted.

For friends who gather at the graves of their fallen comrades
For grandsons and daughters who no longer hear the voice of their elders
For those who wail in grief and for those who have no more tears

Lord, comfort those who cannot be comforted.

Lord Jesus, we pray for the miracle of your risen life to manifest tonight on these: That you would be The Resurrection and the Life to them; that they would experience the living hope of resurrection and reuniting in the life to come.

Holy Spirit, take this prayer and make it a multiplied seed in the hearts of the grieving this season. Cause our prayer of hope against all hope to be a part of the world’s healing tonight.

Amen.

(this prayer was written by David Morrison of the desert rain community...i have found much comfort in praying it in times like these)

macfan

Sorry for their loss Mac.

thank you sola...

it's times like these that make everything else in life seem so small and inconsequential.

macfan

Mac, I too join in for the Smith Family.... "Lord comfort those who cannot be comforted" are just the right words. When death separates us from someone we love there is no comfort save that which God/Spirit can provide. (((((hugs)))))

Jacquie x

thank you merseylass...mercy - lass...i know you understand.

macfan