Bless More

 

BLESS MORE   - a memorial prayer

 

Hold close, O God, bless more:

The men missing their daughters; the moms without their sons

The widows grieving husbands, while raising little ones.

Each boys whose soldier daddy did not come home from war

Families who honor what the sacrifice was for 

 

Hold close,  Father,  bless big:

The battlefield  survivor who fought next to his friend

still stuck inside that foxhole where he thought it was the end 

The military heroes and their communities   

rent by the pain of  those who fell protecting liberty   

 

Hold close,  bring peace,  bless more:

The nation 

            who remembers

                        its valiant defenders. 

Mend broken lives,  restore.

hold close,  Jesus,  

bless more. 

  

*May 31,  2021  - Wendysue Fluegge