O My God
My soul's companion
My heart's precious friend
I turn to You.

I need to close out the noise
To rise above the noise
The noise that interrupts –
The noise that separates –
The noise that isolates.
I need to hear You again.

In the silence of my innermost being,
In the fragments of my yearned-for wholeness,
I hear whispers of Your presence –
Echoes of the past when You were with me
When I felt Your nearness
When together we walked –
When You held me close, embraced me in Your love,
laughed with me in my joy.
I yearn to hear You again.

In Your oneness, I find healing.
In the promise of Your love, I am soothed.
In Your wholeness, I too can become whole again.

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman in The Jewish Book of Grief and Healing: A Spiritual Companion for Mourning by Stuart M. Matlins, Editor, The Editors of Jewish Lights