For Those Afflicted

O Heavenly Parent, wrap your loving arms of support and comfort around all those who have been devastated by natural calamities.  Relieve those who suffer; restore health and strength to those who are sick.  In Christ, who is the Resurrection and the Life, let the heavy-ladehn find strength to endure and those who are in the valley of the shadow see the light of life eternal.  Give to those in sorrow or loneliness the assurance that nothing can ever separate them from your Love, which is in Christ Jesus, O Lord, in whose name we pray.  Amen.