When We Lose A Child or Parent

Verse 1

When we lose a child or parent, husband dear, a wife, a friend, there are painful, empty places in our hearts until life's end.

Verse 2

Though we learn to go on living, no one takes a loved one's place. Is this loneliness a curse, God, or a blessed gift of grace?

Verse 3

Look into these empty places at our hidden feelings, fears; free us, God, from guilt and anger, and release love's healing tears.

Verse 4

Lead us to recall with laughter happy times with loved ones lost, find the joy of loving others worth the pain that it has cost.

Verse 5

Let the love we shared together give us comfort, ease our pain, that one day we may awaken to your rainbow in the rain.

Verse 6

Thank you, God, for empty places in our lives when loved ones die, for they keep us still connected as the days and years pass by.