We know that they live again, that they live again, our dear ones whom we no longer can see.
You have not taken them into a kingdom -- they wouldn't be happy in a kingdom -- but you have opened wide for them a place of joy and peace and challenge, where their dreams can be fulfilled.
And this place somehow includes our own small portion of the world. They have not really left us, our dear ones, they are close by us in a way they could never be before.
They know how much we miss them; they know how much we love them. They understand about all the things we meant to do for them and didn't, the words we failed to say.
They put their arms around us to comfort us. They tell us, "It's all right, human love is faulty but for all its faults enduring. It goes beyond such things, it goes beyond even this separation. The loss of the body does not mean the loss of that love. There is a new life in which that love is even stronger. For God is love, remember. God is truly love."
And this we know. This, God, we know: They are with you now -- forever. And so with us forever -- in this new dimension of love.