Prayer
for Mass Murder Victims, Families and Communities
| July 22, 2012
Remembering mass murder
victims, families and communities in your prayer times is a good way to ask
that God will help them through their grief and send his healing love.
Dear Heavenly Father,
Our hearts are broken today as we contemplate the numbing circumstances
of another mass murder in the headlines. We pray especially that your
healing presence will be with all of those who have been directly
affected. We pray for the victims who have suffered physical and
psychological wounds as a result of being attacked without warning while they
went about a normal part of daily life. Heal their bodies, minds, souls
and spirits and give them good caregivers who will listen to them, cry with
them and pray with them. May the victims feel our love and your love.
We pray for the families whose loved ones have been killed. Be
with them during this time of shock, grief and mourning. Bear them up as
they lay to rest their loved ones and as they commend them into your heavenly
care. Walk with them through their times of anger, their sorrow that they
didn’t get to say goodbye and during the sudden agony of all of their tomorrows
when they will be terribly aware of the empty places in their homes and hearts.
We pray for the communities where this tragedy occurred. Help your
churches become refuges of comfort. Empower your people to become the
hands and feet of Christ to reach out with your restoring love.
We are at a loss for words on how to pray for the person who committed
this unimaginable act. Only You can understand the tormented state of
mind that must have possessed them. Please help them and others like them
who suffer from delusions, mental illness and evil spirits. Have mercy on
their families and friends who are suffering greatly as a result of this
violent act.
Finally, we pray for ourselves. Help us to pray with your
compassion for those who suffer violence. Give us a renewed sense of what
a gift it is to live each day in peace and freedom. Help us not to allow
ourselves to be diminished by fear but instead let us draw closer to you.
Make us instruments of your peace in our homes and communities.
Amen.
Copyright Karen Barber 2012 All rights reserved.
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