Today on Faith Lifts I read of a family who desperately needs our prayers. They have lost a beautiful son to complications with a heart transplant. I believe that prayer builds, and lifts up in times when we are weak; and that as Christians we are all connected to one another, even if they are all the way across the world and we have never met, through Jesus. I have never experienced the pain of losing a child, but I know it would have to be one of the most excruciating feelings in the world. So to Canon’s family we send out our deepest thoughts and prayers.
Lord, I pray that you bring healing and peace to the aching hearts of this family. We know there are so many questions, some that we will not know the answers to until we meet you face to face. I ask that you reassure this family that you love them as a father, just as they loved Canon, and you are not afraid of their questions. Help them to stand in your prescence and feel your loving arms to surround them, as they mourn and grieve their loss. Knowing that Canon is not sad but rejoicing, able to do all the things he could not do on earth. We ask that you renew their strength, and their faith. That having done all to stand, they stand. They stand on your word and your truth, that you love them and do not forsake them. Remind them of your loving mercies, and may they be a witness to others whose faith is not as strong. When we mourn it is not for those that have gone before us, but for those of us that are left behind, and today we rememeber all of Canon’s family and ask you to let them just feel the love that we send their way. Knowing that this is the hardest thing they could ever have to face.
Thank you to all who read this and send a prayer of encouragement their way, and remember to thank God for your many blessings today, never take for granted the precious gift of life that we have all been given. “A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved.”