Someone taught me this long ago.

Look up.

When you’ve lost someone, you only want, anyone, to understand your grief and pain. But the truth is, no one ever can fully understand.

I lost my brother and maybe you have too, but you haven’t lost MY brother: everything we’ve gone through, who he was to me, you will never understand.

But someone does understand and that is our Lord and Savior. He understands grief and loss and pain to an infinite degree that we cannot imagine.

The hope of that and the hope of things to come is only what I cling to.

No person, no understanding, no amount of empathy, no experience, can ever fill that void; it can only be found in knowing how much you are loved and known by the One who created you.

Do not look for validation in this world. Peace and joy and love is found in looking up!