In The Time of Sorrow
by Sandra A. MushiO God, our father, we know You are afflicted in all our afflictions; and in our sorrow we come to You that give us the comfort which You alone can give.
Make us feel sure that in perfect wisdom, perfect love and perfect power You are working ever for the best.
Make us rest assured that a Father's hand will never cause His child a needless tear.
Make us so sure of Your love that we will be able to accept even that which we can not understand.
Help us to be thinking not of the darkness of death, but of the splendour of the life everlasting, forever in Your presence and forever with You.
Help us still to face life with grace and gallantry; and help us to find courage to go on in the memory that the best tribute we can pay to our loved one is not the tribute of tears, but the constant memory that another has been added to the unseen cloud of witnesses who compass us about.
Comfort and uphold us, strengthen and support us, until we also come to the green pastures which are besides the still waters, and until we meet again those whom we have loved and lost awhile.
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