We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them… Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray… This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn… Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God’s love.
