This is a grief many carry quietly. These words are for the parts of it too hard to say out loud.
// the word for this moment
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Psalm 147:3 (KJV)
“The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
Psalm 34:18 (KJV)“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.”
Isaiah 66:13 (KJV)This kind of loss often gets carried in silence, because it can be hard to explain a grief for someone the world never got to meet. But the weight of it is real, and it doesn't need to be justified to be honored. Isaiah 66:13 uses the image of a mother's comfort on purpose — close, physical, unhurried. That's the kind of nearness being offered here, not a quick explanation, just presence.