A Prayer following Rachel Held Evans’ death

The death of a good person generally doesn’t make sense. It’s never the right time. Someone is always too young. No answer to your “why?” is ever sufficient, if it gets answered at all.

Grief is always unbearably hard.

Rachel Held Evan’s death doesn’t make sense. It wasn’t a good time. She was too young. She was accomplishing so much.

When something tragic happens, all I know to do is pray (which is sometimes simply a rhetorical “why????” and that’s okay.)

If you’re grieving, give prayer a try.

Dear Lord,

Comfort Rachel Held Evans’ family, friends, and readers at her sudden death.
Comfort those of us who grieve whenever we feel another’s loss fresh with pain.
You can’t make us understand,
so just help us to trust you with our loss and our grief.
Use this and every sorrow to bind us closer to you
and find solace and faith in trusting your love for us
and your continued plan to prosper us as your children.
Help us to only depend on you for everything.

In the name of The Man of Sorrows, Jesus Christ,
Amen.

Matthew 11:25-26 “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whosever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”