I participated in a Blue Christmas service..it was tonight and it was lovely. I was ready for the service emotionally I thought until the grief hit me. The anniversary of my mother's death - six years, the anniversary soon of my father's death 44 years. Grief is strange it can lay away for such a long time and then there it is again!
Tonight service was to acknowledge our grief here at Christmas. It is hard because everyone around us is happy, songs, gifts. etc. And we are there to the side thinking of the ones we miss the job we lost, the relationship that ended.
I prepared for the service by looking at a piece of sea glass. I marveled at its smoothness and beauty. Originally however this glass was not beautiful and smooth, it was a broken piece of glass, sharp, hard and deadly. But then the storms and legions of water took that glass and smoothed it over time, now making it a piece of beauty. May this prayer help us begin to see the beauty soon that is shaped in the storms of our lives...
We come today tired, afraid, and lonely. It seems as soon as we try to leave the troubled waters of this life we are hit with another wave - a wave of grief, a wave of pain, a wave of fear. How God do we respond to these waves?
There is no specific answer is there God? We know we must ride this storm of life, but we do not need to ride it alone. So now dear Holy Spirit we ask you to join us in this storm, whisper to us and remind us we are beloved! We are beloved! We are Beloved!
Dearest Jesus, you join us too! We know you are here and that you only wait for us to acknowledge you. Sorry Lord, for ignoring you so long and trying to ride this storm alone. We ask that you too Jesus provide us a Beacon of light to come home safely from this storm and shine your Light brightly so we may remember - We are Beloved!
And when this storm is finished let the beauty in our lives which was shaped by this storm tell others that they too are Beloved! In Jesus Name Amen
Tonight service was to acknowledge our grief here at Christmas. It is hard because everyone around us is happy, songs, gifts. etc. And we are there to the side thinking of the ones we miss the job we lost, the relationship that ended.
I prepared for the service by looking at a piece of sea glass. I marveled at its smoothness and beauty. Originally however this glass was not beautiful and smooth, it was a broken piece of glass, sharp, hard and deadly. But then the storms and legions of water took that glass and smoothed it over time, now making it a piece of beauty. May this prayer help us begin to see the beauty soon that is shaped in the storms of our lives...
We come today tired, afraid, and lonely. It seems as soon as we try to leave the troubled waters of this life we are hit with another wave - a wave of grief, a wave of pain, a wave of fear. How God do we respond to these waves?
There is no specific answer is there God? We know we must ride this storm of life, but we do not need to ride it alone. So now dear Holy Spirit we ask you to join us in this storm, whisper to us and remind us we are beloved! We are beloved! We are Beloved!
Dearest Jesus, you join us too! We know you are here and that you only wait for us to acknowledge you. Sorry Lord, for ignoring you so long and trying to ride this storm alone. We ask that you too Jesus provide us a Beacon of light to come home safely from this storm and shine your Light brightly so we may remember - We are Beloved!
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