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You Can Realize True Comfort

◆ If your child dies, try to accept help and encouragement from friends and relatives. Perhaps those who have lost children can help comfort you.

◆ You may believe in the hope of the resurrection, but do not be alarmed if that belief does not bring you immediate comfort. As time begins to heal those wounds, you will, no doubt, come to appreciate the hope of seeing your loved one again.​—Isaiah 25:8; 65:23; John 5:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 15:25, 26.

◆ Try to rely on Jehovah, “the God of all comfort.” (2 Corinthians 1:3) He is the One who has provided a way to “bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the Devil.”​—Hebrews 2:14.

◆ It is proper and helpful to express grief, so give yourself time to resolve feelings of grief and loss. (See “Awake!” of April 22, 1985, “When Someone You Love Dies,” and of August 8, 1987, “Facing the Loss of a Child.”)