Here is an Ancestral Clearing prayer for lost children.
Infinite Creator, God, Holy Mother, Divine Spirit, Oneness, Source of All That Is – You are known by many names and You are One. We ask humbly on behalf of ourselves and our ancestors throughout all time and space –
For all the times children perished to illness, and for their parents and other caretakers who felt powerless as they watched them die – please help them all to forgive one another and themselves. Please and thank You. For any guilt or shame anyone felt as a result of these deaths and all that followed forward into the lineage around that. Please help us all to forgive one another and ourselves. Please and thank You.
For all the times children died through suicide, murder, addiction, or accident, and for the times loved ones felt responsible for these events – please help us all to forgive one another and ourselves. Please and thank You. For any time we turned our grief and sorrow in on ourselves to fester into anger and resentment – and for all that emanated out into the lineage because of it – please help us all to forgive each other and ourselves. Please and thank You.
Please help us to bear the sting of these losses and the weight of our grief over them. Please and thank You.
For all the times children died and those who lived felt survivor’s guilt; for the times loved ones of passed children carried unresolved grief; for the times loved ones of these children were unable to say goodbye; for the times children left home one day and never returned, and no one ever knew what happened – please help us all forgive each other and ourselves. Please and thank You.
For any time any of us turned our back to You, for the times we shook our fists at You and cried “How could You let this happen?” – please forgive us and help us to forgive ourselves. Please and thank You.
For all the heartache parents endured by living longer than their children and all they made that mean about themselves, the community, life, and You, Infinite Creator – please help us all to forgive each other and ourselves. Please and thank You.
For the times we saw our children cut down in their youth for what seemed to be nor sane reason and for the angst, deep sorrow, anger, frustration, and bewilderment we felt because of it; for the times we lost sense of order, meaning, and purpose in life because of the children’s deaths – and all that followed in the lineage because of that – please help us all forgive each other and ourselves. Please and thank You.
Please help everyone involved in these events find peace with each other and ourselves. Please and thank You. Please help to let go of the burden of our grief and find our way to our purpose here on Earth and in this life. Please and thank You. Please help us to realize ‘the other is you’ and that You live manifest in each one of us. May we remember always the love and grace that lives in our hearts. Please help us to keep our hearts open no matter what happened. Please help us to forgive utterly and without reservation.
Please and thank You.
Please and thank You.
Please and thank You.
Amen.
Read more about Ancestral Clearing and how it can help you here.
With gratitude to Howard Wills and John Newton for their development and contribution to this work.
