On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on an element from the day's celebration of Mass. Having decided to work with Isaiah 25:8 from the first reading of today's mass, I began searching for an appropriate song selection. When I found Bernard Sexton's God Will Wipe Away All Tears I realized that this composition itself could serve as our prayer.
Take a few minutes in prayer to remember the people, the places, the memories and the events that burden your heart and bring you to tears... (And yes, it's ok to cry...)
The people...
The places...
The memories...
The events...
Then, with tonight's song, pray for God to begin to wipe away all your tears...
God Will Wipe Away All Tears by Bernard Sexton
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God will wipe away all tears
God will bring you home
To the place he has prepared for you
You shall never be alone
Storms may gather, evening fall
Daylight turn to shade
And when you earthly work is done
Do not fear, be not afraid.
There’s a time for everything
A time to be born
There’s a time to dance, to laugh
A time to weep, a time to mourn
Every plant that fades and dies
Is part of the Lord’s plan
When we die, we live anew
In God we are reborn.
Refrain
Lovely is your dwelling place
O Lord God of hosts
How my soul clings to you
Close to the living God
Like the sparrow finds a home
The swallow finds a nest
So I’ll find a place with God
With him I shall be blessed.
Refrain
God will wipe away all tears
And death shall be no more
Alpha and Omega
Beginning and the end
Though we walk in death’s dark vale
No evil shall we fear
God is there, our Shepherd, Lord
Our Comforter is here.
Refrain
Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake
and watch over me while I sleep
that awake, I might keep watch with you
and asleep, rest in your peace...
Amen.
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