Consolation to the Bereaved

Every night before I go to sleep, I pray for my father that he may find the way to God's kingdom in heaven. I often asked the Lord how is my father doing because I believe that He is watching over Him through out his journey. I think of my father walking in a tunnel glowing with white light.

Tonight is very lonely. I kept on putting in my thoughts that my father is alive and I burst into tears. And I remember the past when there were only six of us in our home. We were so happy then and I knew what it mean to have a family.

I really praise and thank God for being so good to me and my family. What I feel right now is sorrowful and it caused me to shed too much tears. Yet, I know that for whatever reason, this is just a beginning of our family's reunion with Him.

To a bereaved, the greatest consolation is the realization of Christ's unprecedented suffering and conquer of death. By this we'll know that prior to our pains, God had tasted and experienced it himself. And Mother Mary bore the pain with Him. Yet He allowed those things because those are essential for the fulfillment of His ultimate mission here on earth.

A Prayer for My Father

Dear God,

I pray that You guide my father on his journey to Your kingdom. May Your eternal light shine on him to lead him on his way. May all his pains and sorrows vanish from his memory. May he be blessed with cleansed spirit and pure soul that he may be able to enter Your kingdom.

When he knocks at Your door, I pray that You welcome him in Your loving hours. I also pray that You grant him with eternal bliss...

Recognize him O Lord, for he has waited for You so long. In his 25 years imprisonment from a body that had been half dead and almost 5 years of life in bed, he had always called for Your name hoping that one day You would rescue him from his miseries.

The time has come O Lord, that You heard his prayers. The time had come for my father to take his own journey... alone... And it always comforts me when I know that You've always been with him... with us...

Take care of my father O Lord. I will never see him in this life again but I'm hoping that someday, someday... I'll see him again and I'll embrace him... I'll embrace him so tight... which I have never done in my life...