Last Night Prayer

Ultra-C's post on resuming praying the Daily office ended with his appreciation of the last parts of night prayer.

He shared that one of his favorites is:

May the all-powerful Lord grant us a restful night,
and a peaceful death.

(It's one of my faves, too.)

I thought I'd post my reply here, since I now have yet another song in my head:

Some evenings, while my Dad was at the end of his battle with cancer, I'd sit in his room while Mom took a break.

I sang these words to him, which I based on the last of the night prayers:

May the Lord grant to us
a restful night
May the Lord Who forgives all our sins hold us tight;
May the Lord grant to us
a restful night
and in the end
give to us
a peaceful death.

Singing, my favorite sort of meditation on scripture, made the reality easier to take.

God answered my prayer for Daddy.