One by One: A Prayer as the COVID-19 Death Toll Mounts

[sheshe2]

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God of consolation,
Surely you count in heaven,
Just as we count here on earth,
In shock and in sorrow,
The souls sent back to You,
One-by-one,
The dead from the COVID pandemic,
As the ones become tens,
The tens become hundreds,
The hundreds become thousands,
The thousands become ten-thousands
And then hundred-thousands,
Each soul, a heartbreak,
Each soul, a life denied.

[sheshe2]

1. Only two people care?

[XanaDUer2]

2. this is heartbreaking

nt

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you for caring. nt

[XanaDUer2]

4. Yes

[Tanuki]

5. My cousin's husband was one of them.

May you rest in peace, Tom. May each of the 500,000, and the millions more elsewhere in the world who also perished from this pestilence, also rest in peace. May those who loved them find peace and comfort.

[sheshe2]

6. I am so sorry for your loss.

God of wisdom,
Surely in the halls of divine justice
You are assembling the courts,
Calling witnesses to testify,
To proclaim
The compassion of some
And the callousness of others
As we’ve struggled to cope.
The souls taken too soon,
Whose funerals were lonely,
Who didn’t need to die,
Who died alone,
Will tell their stories
When You judge
Our triumphs
And our failures
In these hours of need.

[Hekate]

7. Hugs to you

[sheshe2]

8. Love you.