Prayer - Haven of No More Tears

Heavenly Father, the shock was overwhelming.  The mind numb and uncomprehending.  Could it be, their  child, their "little lamb", gone?!  Gone in a way, not from sickness or car crash, or murder but from self-infliction!

Oh Father.  The mother and father, in grief, "laid low in the dust,"..."souls wearied with unmingled and unmitigated sorrow."

Human capacity drained, and still drizzling out, physically incapacitated, a loss of human strength, stretched and sapped to the nth degree endurance.  Yet...yet Your words, oh Father God, preserve and strengthened them, therewith.

We fly into Your arms Lord, into Your calming, understanding presence; so many fierce questions on our lips.  In seasons such as these, how can we make sense of it all?!  Only in You can our lives be preserved, to meditate upon Your words and wonderful deeds, to bring understanding to hearts and minds rent almost asunder, yet cocooned from total devastation, by Your precepts.

The anchor, faithfulness, gracious and truthful ways with heart set upon Your laws, may they hold parents, family, and friends, fast in the path of Your commands and in the tragic travesties of life and death, that threaten to sink them into the depths of despair and depression.

Buoy the hearts and souls and the trust of Your people in pain, with Your word and "broaden their understanding" throughout the new days of "normalcy" ahead, for navigating without the one they loved.  Steady the minds, awash with your word; steady the hearts with Your compelling, compassionate, consoling love and care and empathy.

Suffering and sorrow, and death, but, some day, for Your people, everlasting life and joy abiding in that place, nestled with You in Heaven; the Haven of No More Tears.

In Jesus Name we cry out in anguish, Father, for those who have loved and lost.

                                                     ~ERC  July 2020~

Based on Psalm 119:25-32 NIV (Daleth)

Sing, or just sit and listen,  Does Jesus Care?  as sung by Gaither music