Disenfranchised Grief – Religion & Grief Ministries

Blessed Are We Who Mourn

Blessed are we who mourn, who now not muffle our cries within the night time however by daylight and within the firm of others right here

 declare our sorrow, sorrows unacknowledged by our households and communities, generally even by ourselves. 

The demise of an incarcerated neighbor, a beloved pet,  a childhood pal, a homosexual associate, a mentor, a pupil, a niece who died by drug overdose, a miscarriage, a shattered marriage, a son’s demise by suicide—ache we are able to hardly bear. 

Blessed are we who mourn

lack of livelihood and objective, 

lack of mobility and well being, 

lack of home and residential,  

lack of religion and hope, our discipline of goals,

lack of these with whom we used to mourn. 

Blessed are we who mourn

world sorrow—the devastation in Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, the Sudanand different locations named within the coronary heart. 

The apocalyptic local weather disasters of hurricane and flood, hearth and icy storms. No, we can notmerely construct once more. Trauma imbedded inside,we cry out our lament in protest and mourning. 

Blessed are we who mourn, and we give thanks that we’re not left companionless,however are held within the large mercy and love of God

and on this good firm of religion. 

Amen. 

Dr Pat Saxon