[Pegita]

Heavenly Father, we return to give You thanks that You are the God of all comfort ... were it not so, O God, the very deepest anguish within our souls could not be touched by the feeble attempts by man. There are sighs and groanings that can only be given voice by the Holy Spirit ... You assure us that our anguish becomes words before the Throne of Grace ... You know and understand.

Touch Lily with Your comfort and understanding, O God, for she has been witness to the brutality of man. Her soul has been shaken ... nothing but Your loving arms can surround her with any sense of security, for evil has come calling. Eyes were not meant to see such death and destruction ... it has been an abomination since Cain slew Abel ... the ungodly against the righteous. It continues to this day, O God, and we recoil in horror.

Stir our hearts, O Lord, to continue in prayer for our defenders, who witness brutality in a far off land, that we be spared such scenes in our own communities. Stir our hearts, O Lord, to continually seek divine protection for our President, for he is a target, too. Stir our hearts, O Lord, to pray that the Holy Spirit descends mightily upon all those who are grieved, for our freedom is written in the blood of patriots and martyrs.

We seek shelter in You, Merciful Father, and pray that this storm will pass and that we might once again know peace upon the land. Yet, whatever the circumstance, Your Word is unshakable ... "Be not deceived, God is not mocked, that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7. Greatly are You to be praised, O Lord, now and forevermore, Amen ...

[JustPiper]

Her soul has been shaken ... nothing but Your loving arms can surround her with any sense of security, for evil has come calling. Eyes were not meant to see such death and destruction
~Amen

[Cindy]

and Amen.