Prayers . . . on endings

PRAYER AFTER A SIBLING DIES

Holy Father, I know your are real.  I believe you exist.  Yet I am confused. Why has my sister been snatched away by death?  She was so young and innocent -- just beginning to bloom and grow into the person she would become.  I don't understand.  Is my sister in heaven?  Why won't you answer me, Lord?

I've never faced the death of someone I love before.  I don't know how to react.  How I should behave?  I feel so guilty.  We lived in the same home an yet there wad so much about my sister I never took time to know.  So many things left unsaid; so many things left undone.  I never really even looked her in the eye and said, "I love you."  forgive me for wasting so much of our time together.

And God, if I don't know where she has gone, how can I know what will happen to me when I die?  Help me find answers to my questions.  Help me comfort the rest of the family.  Teach me what to say when I happen upon other family members who are crying or struggling with depression.  Help us help one another, God.  Move us through this mind-numbing grief to find some semblance of normality again.  We don't want to dishonor our loved one by forgetting her, but Lord, help us go on with our lives.  Help us have joy again.  Help us find answers to our questions about death and heaven and eternity.

Amen

I will turn their mourning into gladness;

I will give them comfort and joy

instead of sorrow.

 

Jer. 31:13

Date this page was last edited:  July 24, 2004