You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

John 14:28

     

     And so we should rejoice for those whom we see as dead, for they are with our Father, and is that not the reward we have sought.  Have faith.

"He is not the God of the dead, but of the living; you are greatly mistaken."

Mark 12:27