A Prayer for the One Grieving a Parent

Listen to me pray this with you.

O God,

Father of the fatherless,

As lovingly mindful of each son and daughter as our own nursing mothers:

Enfold Your bereft children in Your own ineffable, unfailing love;

Console Your desolate chicks with Your sheltering wing;

Guide Your lost sheep with generous wisdom;

Carry the wounded and weary lambs in Your arms;

Abundantly provide daily bread for Your little ones;

Defend your cubs with loyal strength;

Apprehend the wanderers and bring them home to Yourself;

Nurture, cultivate, and celebrate every green sprout of virtue, worship, obedience, and calling;

Sing Your delight as our lullaby;

Establish broken hearts in the sustaining hope of restoration,

Until our Homegoing or our Lord's return.

Amen.