margaret reynolds

alan l. Joplin/2-10-02

Margaret Reynolds-Funeral Prayer

Our dear Father, With broken hearts and sorrowing spirits, we come before You to be healed, comforted, and sustained.We thank you for the gift of memory and for the ties that bind our hearts in love.  Margaret is precious in our memory, dear to our hearts and we feel a profound loss.Help this family through this time of sorrow.Enable them to assimilate the loss and to live for the future deepened in faith, and enriched by Margaret’s influence and love.We thank you for Margaret.We thank You for her character, the breadth of her sympathies, the patience of her understanding, for her courage, her knowledge and the calmness of her spirit even in anguish and distress.Sustain and comfort her family with the consolation that they are in Your Holy keeping, and that one-day they will be reunited.We are grateful that You are able to bring comfort to our hearts.Your tender mercies remind us that we are not alone in our sorrow and loss.O God, You are ever near when we are afflicted, and You have  suffered with us. In the name of Christ we pray these things.  Amen