Isabelle

In the Bob Munson funeral that I referred to a couple of blogs ago, the petition prayers were to be said by the granddaughter, Isabelle, an eighth grader at our school.  She was going to contribute to the funeral mass in this way.  It was an important moment and I suspect she was wanting to do it.  She got to the pulpit, and "lost" it, as some would say. She just could not stop crying.  It was hard to understand anything she was saying amidst her sobs.  I wonder if she thought she was a failure?  I for one, think it was a great prayer, one of the best I have heard in some time.  Why?  Isabelle prayed from her heart, with all her honest emotion.  She loves her grandfather and prayed with love, which at that moment was filled with grief, sorrow and loss.  Do you think God cares how the words come out of our mouth?  No.  God cares about our honesty, loving with our whole heart and all that is in it.  Isabelle did just that and I for one am quite proud of her.  Jesus says that we have to lose our life to find it.  Isabelle lost composure but found a way to express her true life of love and pain all in her prayers at funeral.