My visitors prayer...Understanding Dementia

My Visitors Prayer

Please grant my visitors tolerance for my confusion,

Forgiveness for my irrationality

and

Strength to walk with me into the mist of memory my world has become.

Please help them take my hand, and stay awhile

 even though I seem unaware of their presence.

Help them to know how their strength and loving care

 will drift softly into the days to come just when I need it most.

Let them know when I don’t recognize them, that

 I will, I will…

Keep their hearts free from sorrow for me—

For my sorrow, when it comes

Only last a moment, then it’s gone.

And

Finally Lord, please let them know

How very much their visits mean,

How even through this relentless Mystery—

I can feel their love.

Amen

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