A Prayer for a Friend

 A prayer for a dear friend …

O LORD, our God,

The days of our lives belong to you.

From our first breath to the last.

In time and eternity.

Now and forever.

How this should be defies all reason.

A great and marvelous mystery.

Love flowing among the stars.

Creating, and recreating.

Making all things new.

Hold now in your kindly arms.

My dear friend.

His heart is broken, shattered, scattered.

His tears well up like a desert flood.

See him through the dreary days, I pray.

Help him recount the joys and pleasures.

Of love given, and love received.

To blunt the blows of death.

To soften the grief.

You know us through and through, Dear God.

You watched our form take shape.

In our mothers womb; you were there.

You are the God of our beginnings.

And, then, as well, our endings.

And to you, Dear God, we belong.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Amen and Amen!