Suicide During Lent

On behalf of the ____________ family, I want to thank you for being here today to remember ____________ and give thanks to God for his life. Death draws us together within a web of common, sometimes conflicting, feelings. Your presence and support are vital to this family and will be for some time to come.

Let us pray: Gracious God, gather us together under the banner of your Word. Pierce our darkness with your light. In the name of Christ our Lord. Amen.

Yesterday, after the 11 a.m. service here at ____________, one of our senior members said to me, "My heart is broken." Of course her heart was broken. She had lost a member of her church family. She spoke for all of us then, and I daresay she speaks for all of us now.

____________: Our hearts are broken, too. We, too, have…