+Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth, and firefighters and police personnel.
O Lord of life and light, like a brief candlelight they warmed our hearts protecting us. And they put out flooding fires that could harm and destroy.
You gave, and continue to give life, to those whom we remember this day - the stilled and fallen firefighters, the breathless police personnel who endlessly and tirelessly protected us.
In courage they gave and gave. Like angels, good news bearers, they watered destructive fires that engulfed our loves ones, and, even the lives of firefighters overcome with flames. Some we remember today.
May this candlelight keep their lives alive, at least in our memories, and, in those here today whose hearts are broken, a light is flickering, and, love limps in the loss of a firefighter, a police officer.
They are a light in your Light. A little or a lot it doesn't matter. They are light.
Unafraid they fought fire amid floods of water pouring on to the flames of fire.
With courage the police defend life and justice and keep light alive, even if only a flickering memory
of one who died fighting crime, or fights, or fires.
Help them and us, and those we remember, to help us keep the light burning bright in their memory.
Don't let us ever let the light go out. That light that police and fire personnel bring to any harmful situation. Keep them wise, O Lord, and awashed in your brilliant light and wisdom.
Let us be confident in giving our deceased police and fire personnel over to your embracing love
as you hold the deceased in your huge heart.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
Live on kindly light.
And, let us not ever let the light go out on those we remember here, this day. So help us God.
A M E N.
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