Unity Hospice

On one occasion, I was asked to go into a room and be with a girl whose mother was dying. Mum would die shortly after, I had to enter the room. When I went into the room, the girl was at the bedside of his mother. She died shortly after I entered the room. Her husband was on his way to be with his wife and daughter of this patient. He did not do it in time.

The girl did not want to be alone when Mom took her last breath. I was asked to intervene for her husband who could not make time to be with his stepmother and wife. When he arrived, his wife was so grateful that I had been with her that she shared this with her husband. Meanwhile, I wondered if some guilt on his part can create with his personal pain. Just in case, I offered a prayer of release and blessing for their three lives having known one another in this life to include the son.

Prayer is a wonderful way to invoke the sacred in our lives. The prayer calls for a comprehensive understanding that God / Higher Power is in charge of life and death. It is a reminder that the presence of Spirit replaces all that God and the ultimate capacity of everyone to care for us beyond our own capacity to do so. In this case, prayer was able to invite the unit in a situation where the individual suffering possible could be encountered at a later time. Prayer enabled all to participate in Mom's dying and death of a level of consciousness that includes the presence of a life beyond the body itself.

As I write these words, I remember the prayer is vital for palliative patients and families we serve. Prayer includes an everlasting awareness and generates healing when temporal circumstances could emerge individual flaws in our own psyche. Prayer calls unconditional grace and healing.

For this family, prayer became a way to include all participants in grief to join each other in the path of healing together. He asked what is most sacred in us to seek God's help during a difficult period. In addition, prayer has everyone in the room the ability to search, find, and even the healing power of prayer by focusing our attention outside our ego enough to know exactly where our strength comes.

Prayer is a participatory union between those suggesting the presence of God through faith in a loving being who knows best how to take care of us more than ourselves. It is a relationship based on trust. It is a trust that we remember who we really are children of God. And it is a testamentary trust God's ultimate for our lives beyond our own understanding. It is as if we trust our lives in order Creative existence is not made by human hands. It is a reminder to all of us how each moment is sacred and a way of reminding each other who we really are.

Prayer invites us to close our eyes to the world around us and open them into insight. Here, we see through our eyes which can be seen with them. Here we envision and participate in unconditional love. Innocence is born in this sacred place of healing a separation that was never supposed to be.

Excerpt from: "God a Logs on the life and death" by Sam Oliver