A prayer for the family -

Lord, let us move with grace through this world of endings.
Teach us to listen;
for you rest in silence,
though you move in conversation,
hidden by the spoken word.
Teach us to comfort before wounding;
it is in the touching of others
that humanity begins.
Teach us the way to hold loved ones;
even as we allow their slow growth away.
Keep in us a faith in Change;
for from it we are forged,
in it we are tempered into one.
Yet keep in us this stillness,
this center of knowing,
where forged,
in it we are tempered into one.
Yet keep in us this stillness,
this center of knowing,
where our love brings You pleasure,
and in You we are whole.

Amen.