Abide With Me: A Pause for Grief

As some of you may have noticed, I tend to post on Mondays and Thursdays around noon. Well, today, I’m spending time considering eternity and death. I just don’t want to write. Just think. Remember. Pray.

There are a few wonderful people who have left this life too early. And some who have left just on time. But, they are still so missed by the loved ones left here.

If you are grieving a loss today (whether a new one or an old one), take a moment to remember the silliest moments and the saddest moments with them. It’s good to remember.

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away.
Change and decay in all around I see.
O Lord who changes not, abide with me.

I need your presence every passing hour.
What but your grace can foil the tempter’s power?
Who like yourself my guide and strength can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, O abide with me.

I fear no foe with you at hand to bless,
though ills have weight, and tears their bitterness.
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, your victory?
I triumph still, if you abide with me.

Hold now your Word before my closing eyes.
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven’s morning breaks and earth’s vain shadows flee;
in life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Psalter Hymnal

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