Prayers that question
Alden Solovy’s prayers touch on the times of life we most fear. He finds words for the moments in which most of us have only tears and groans.
When his wife of 27 years, Ami Braziel-Solovy, died after a traumatic brain injury, Solovy had “no desire, no ability to pray or meditate. I was just a blank,” he told Religion News Service.
From the blankness came a prayer for his daughters as he witnessed their grief for their mother. With echoes of Lamentations and Psalms, he wrote “For bereaved children”:
