If You Need This, It's Yours

Father, I pray you make this all COUNT: lessons learned, testimony, a prodigal celebration, a clinging to you, reunions and contrition.   Father, these are YOUR children. You have already won the war but God, in our limited vision, the battle rages.  In Jesus' mighty name, send a legion of angels to fight for YOUR beloveds, to protect them, that not one will perish.  Lord, flood this family with so much LIGHT, the darkness ceases to exist, that not even a shadow of the past prevails. Let minds be renewed, pry open the fingers of the past that a RELEASE takes place.  This is all Yours, Lord.  Just find us in the seconds of the day when even a minute is too much.  Be in the pauses between each breath, that we are taking You in and sending You out. You are LOVE. Father, we lay this family at the foot of the cross, weary and broken, and by the blood of Jesus Christ, we claim LIFE and HEALING.  Amen.