More of the wreckage of war

National Geographic photo

Jane R tells of a friend who told her of someone who returned from Iraq. On receipt of redeployment orders he took his life.

Jane prays:

God of mercy,
welcome into your loving arms
your wounded child.
May he know at last
the peace that we could not give him.
In peace may he rest,
in glory may he rise.
Give your consolation to his family:
may the love of friends
and the knowledge of your boundless love
embrace and fill them.
Fill us with deep compassion
and righteous anger,
that with your help,
in the power of the Holy Spirit,
we may, with Christ whose disciples we are,
work for your kin-dom in our warring world.
Amen.

--JCR

Amen for all whose anguish takes them along this path (some 120 each week).
--the BB