Those Who Would Have Graduated (Loss)

Those Who Would Have Graduated

Lord I send this little prayer Your way
For the families of those
Who would have graduated today.
Each milestone after the loss
Of someone we hold dear
Seems not to go away
But lingers year after year.
Some families have empty seats
at high school graduations
And no limos picked up their teens for prom
But the memories of these dates
And what should have been
Keeps lingering on and on.
Our hearts hurt for them
And we don’t know what to do
Except, Father, to lift them up to you.
Please wrap your arms around them
And with you love surround them
Not only on this day
But the whole year though
For no one loves us more
Than You.
Thena