holding onto comfort

My grandfather passed away this evening.

I will write more about it later. For now, we hold to these words:

Blessed
be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies
and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our affliction,
so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction,
with the comfort with which
we ourselves
are comforted by God.
For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings,
so through Christ we share
abundantly
in comfort, too.

— 2 Cor. 1:3-5 —