Looking for comfort in my little Bible concordance

Tim's Aunt Lynn died recently and I went searching the Scriptures for something that would comfort, talk about grief, be a balm to me and to them.

I looked up "comfort."  They were good passages but a lot of reasons why we will be comforted so that we can comfort others.  A truly beautiful thought, but when you've just lost someone, it is hard to see how a deeper meaning could have been worth it.

Then I looked up "grief." No luck in the little concordance in my Bible.

Then, and only then, I looked up "death."  It's hard to look death in the face. But God is not scared of it and He talks about it without words that evade.

Isaiah 25 speaks of a time in the future when God will swallow up death forever.

Today, when I think of Tim, of Lynn, of their family, I am reminded that death will not be with us forever.  And the death that eats us alive from the inside will one day be swallowed up.  That is my prayer today. For me, Tim, Lynn's family, my family, and my friends (those who believe and who don't).  Swallow up the death in our life so that we might experience the fullness of life. Amen.