Finding the Way Home:

A Father’s Heartfelt Journey from the Fog of Loss to the Light of Soul Recognition

By Pieter Elsen
Certified Life Between Lives® Facilitator, USA

A Life Between Lives Story of Deep Healing. The Father: A kind, 49-year-old man, a dedicated engineer by trade. The Weight He Carried: Overwhelming grief after losing his beloved 13-year-old child to suicide; feelings of numbness, crushing guilt, confusion about faith, and a desperate search for meaning.

Introduction: When Logic Gives Way to Longing

This story begins where many profound journeys do: at the breaking point. Our client, a 49-year-old father, came to the Life Between Lives (LBL) session standing on the edge of unimaginable pain. Only months before, his 13-year-old child had died by suicide. This tragedy hadn’t just caused grief—it had spiritually uprooted him, leaving him suspended in a state he called an “endless internal fog.”

He was, at his core, a man who trusted blueprints over belief. A skeptical engineer, he preferred logic, structure, and things he could measure. But the loss shattered the limits of his intellectual world. It pushed him past reasoning and into a deep, desperate longing for truth, connection, and the sheer hope of finding his child again.

He arrived with a beautiful blend of humility, doubt, and raw desperation. What unfolded was more than a technical journey into the inter-life; it was a deeply personal homecoming—a voyage toward his own soul, his faith, and his immense capacity to rise from sorrow into sacred understanding.

Past-Life Echoes: The Shepherd Who Couldn’t Put Down His Burden

The session gently opened to a past life in Central Europe, perhaps the 1300s or 1400s. He found himself as a shepherd—quiet, strong, and tender-hearted. His world was beautifully small: a flock, a devoted wife, a simple home. His days were shaped by unglamorous, steady responsibility.

It was the imagery of shepherding that struck us—the constant weight of protecting others. Even in that simple life, he carried the same quiet pressure he feels today: “I must keep everyone safe.”

As he watched that life conclude, he felt a strange, peaceful neutrality—no fear, just a gentle release. His wife grieved, but he felt held and supported. This peaceful transition was a soft opening, preparing him for the deeper truths ahead.

The Fog of the Mind: A Path of His Own Making

Upon leaving his shepherd life, he entered a place of dense, endless fog. He felt disoriented, bodiless, and utterly alone.

As he described it, he recognized the fog as a mirror of his current struggles: not just his heavy grief, but the landscape of his mind—years of skepticism, self-reliance, and intellectual distance from the spiritual. He had lived “from the neck up,” and the pain of his loss had thickened this into something he could no longer navigate.

At first, he waited, passive, for rescue. Nothing happened.

It was only when he made a small, brave choice—to tentatively move, to search, to lift himself rather than wait to be saved—that the environment shifted. A soft light began to appear, forming a tunnel.

That tentative step was his first act of spiritual reorientation. He chose the path.

The Encounter: Love Without Judgment

Exiting the fog, he found himself enveloped in a radiant brightness. A figure approached through the light.

“It’s Jesus,” he whispered, overcome with shock, humility, and emotion.

Initially, he felt a distance, interpreting Jesus’ presence as disappointment or judgment. But we realized those were projections of his own immense guilt and self-blame over his child’s death.

As we gently explored this, Jesus stepped closer. The presence softened.

Then, something broke inside the client.

Jesus extended a hand, and as the client moved toward the figure and embraced him, he broke down weeping. It wasn’t the weeping of sorrow, but a profound release—a sense of being fully known and yet entirely, unconditionally loved.

There was no divine reprimand. No ledger of mistakes.

Only compassion.

Only the truth that he had never, ever been abandoned.

Jesus encouraged him to keep growing, to rise, and to seek connection not only with his family but upward—to God, to love, and to purpose.

The Soul Group: A Homecoming Beyond Words

Guided further, the energy became exquisitely familiar and warm. When he sensed his soul group, he immediately said, “Oh… I know them. I know them all.”

Their love was absolute—no conditions, no impatience, just the relief of welcoming a brother home.

His soul family acknowledged his grief but reassured him that his child was safe, held, and deeply connected with God. This comfort was immense, but it came with a vital lesson—a teaching that became the heart of the entire session.

The Core Lesson: Resonance and The Great Invitation

The father came into the session hoping for a direct reunion with his child. We had spoken beforehand about the possibility that a Life Between Lives session can sometimes open that door, while also acknowledging that such contact is never guaranteed and always serves the highest spiritual purpose. In this deeply tender and meaningful case, neither Jesus nor the soul group allowed direct contact to take place. Yet this was not a denial—it was an invitation.

The soul group communicated with great clarity and love, explaining that his child was now one with God, their consciousness expanded into light and freedom. Before true attunement could occur, he himself would need to rise to that level of awareness. The message carried a profound reassurance: his child had not been lost and was not suffering in any way. In fact, the child’s soul had chosen a brief life as part of a soul agreement, a dramatic yet deeply loving act intended to awaken him and redirect his path.

The “fog” he had been living in was revealed as more than grief alone. It symbolized the worldly, skeptical identity that had kept him disconnected from deeper spiritual truth until now. Through this loss, his child’s soul was actively guiding him toward clarity, toward a remembrance of the divine. The key was not to wait passively for connection, but to raise his own consciousness—to seek the divine, to orient his life toward love, presence, and spiritual alignment.

This was not punishment, and it was not withholding. It was simply spiritual physics. True connection requires resonance, and resonance begins within.

Integration: Lifting Himself Toward the Light

By the close of the session, the engineer in him finally understood that the fog he had been experiencing was not a destination, but a threshold—a transitional space inviting him to move forward rather than remain lost within it. What became clear was that he had never been judged by Jesus, not for a moment, and that his soul group had been present all along, quietly and unwaveringly supporting him. He came to know, with certainty rather than belief, that his child was safe, expanded beyond physical limitation, and held in divine light.

He also realized that the path back to connection was not through waiting for an external sign or miracle, but through his own inner work—by consciously raising his own vibration and meeting that higher state from within. Love, he understood, does not end. Consciousness does not end. Relationship does not end. Yet healing required heart work, not avoidance.

He left the session carrying something he had not felt in many months: hope. Not the fragile kind rooted in wishful thinking, but a grounded, spiritual knowing. He understood the direction he needed to walk, and for the first time, he felt ready to take those steps.

Conclusion

This Life Between Lives session stands as a powerful testament to the depth of healing that becomes possible when grief is viewed through the perspective of the soul rather than the limits of human loss. For this father, the journey unfolded as a steady bridge out of profound despair, guiding him from darkness toward meaning and hope. It became a radical reconnection with divine, unconditional love, reminding him that love is not severed by death, but transformed. Through the experience, he remembered his eternal spiritual family and the continuity of the soul beyond physical form.

Most poignantly, the session offered a sacred invitation: not to remain anchored in longing, but to rise. To grow, heal, and lift himself into a higher state of awareness and love, so that one day he may stand—soul to soul—in true resonance with his child once more. This reunion will not be achieved through grief or suffering, but through embodying the light, peace, and alignment where his child already exists. ♥

Pieter Elsen is located in Montvale (Roanoke) Virginia, USA, and sees clients in-person and online worldwide

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