Read a prayer first.
Then commission your own.

Father, we bring You Eleanor — Your daughter of seventy-one years, who has served You quietly since the days she sang in the choir at her Methodist church.

You know why she comes: her husband Thomas, and the surgery he faces this month. Steady the hands of his doctors. Sit beside her in the waiting room, where the hours are longest, and let her feel that she has never once waited alone.

Renew her strength, Lord, as You promised: they that wait upon You shall mount up with wings as eagles. And when Thomas comes home, let their table overflow with the gratitude of people who have seen Your hand.

Amen.