We reach out to all of you who suffer
With
our love, compassion, and prayers.
We
solemnly recognize every moment of fear and dread,
loss
and terror, grief and angst,
Thirst
and hunger, pain and panic,
Destruction and devastation,
Death and sorrow, sleeplessness and stress
You
all have borne, suffered, and endured.
Our
thoughts are totally consumed
With
deepest grief and rising anger
Towards the turn of events!
At your feet, life's cruel and devastating nightmare
Delivered death, destruction, suffering, and a struggle to survive.
We
reach out to you with our love, compassion, and prayers.
We
surround you with our love!
We
enfold you with our compassion,
And we uphold you with our prayers.
We
light a candle in our homes for you
And we
pray that somehow...
Our
love, compassion, and prayers
Will
touch your hearts and lives
So
that you know that you are not alone!
Written by Roberta Blankenship
Edited by M. Elizabeth Lee
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There
is a simple story about two little girls playing...
One of
them has a dolly whose arm falls out while the girls are playing.
They
both start to cry...
One
holding the dolly... the other one holding the arm
They
try to fix it but can't... so they cry together... for a long time.
So
long, in fact, that one of the little girls is very late coming home
from playing at her friend's house.
This
child's mother begins to scold her daughter
the minute she walks in the door.
It
takes the mother a moment to see that her daughter has been crying.
Then,
the mother stoops down to hold her daughter close
and
asks her why she is crying.
The
little girl tells her mother about her friend's dolly.
Her
mother says,
"You
know you don't know how to fix a dolly like that,
why
didn't you come home when you were supposed to?"
The
little girl says,
"Oh,
Moooommy, we gave up trying to fix her dolly...
I
stayed with her because
I was
helping her cry!"
*****
And
so...
With
all our love....
We
reach out to your hearts from our hearts.
With
all our compassion... We help you cry.
With
all our prayers... We help you hope and have courage.
May
you each and all feel the love, compassion and prayers
of
everyone who cannot 'be there' with you.