The presence of the living God

While facilitating Grief and loss class. A well hoped for peaceful session of 25 patients for sharing their feelings. During their grief process, mix of emotions with pain, resentment,relive experience of the tragic loss, guilt, and sobbing... A woman shared her story on how her 14 years old son died, soon after her father died. Could not find an answer why her love one just past away, one after another. Another young male patient shared about his encounters while in service, and how he had watched his pals got killed during combat. Then another patient was open his wound in sharing a tragedies of seeing his mom suicide in front of his presence.Gradually, one after another open up their tragic loss, so far it was a entrance to healing and a controlled environment grief. Until, the next young homosexual patient came up to speak, he held tight to his anger , because of memories paralyzing him from moving forward. He mentioned how his boyfriend had died, and how he was raped at the age of 11 years old by his father. Soon after, his rage blow out of proportion, within a few minutes, seemed to cause a plague of depression throughout the en tile classroom. As I glanced over at other patients and closely analyzed their facial expression, transfer from sad to deep emotional distorted. As I comforted them by explaining grief goes through many stages of emotion,they might have to experience , before they can come to acceptance, takes time to heal and it will get better within times .

After we practice breathing, and I essentially pray to God for their safety comfort, and merge to God 's healing by faith.I ask God for their strength on not to lose heart over what they are suffering . In God 's glory "what according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith-that you , being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpassed knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God". Ephesians 3:16.

Not long after this prayer, miraculously, the whole room is fill with serenity and I felt love in the classroom placed in God's embrace. The final moment, the intense spirit was replace in calm and beloved in His grace.