Such grief for you. I only can hope for you that you'll have a taste of the ecstasy that she's delighting in, now gone to Jehovah's presence. May He keep you as you long for her. Know that she does not miss this place at all, brother. She has gone to her heavenly reward! I remind to you these thoughts of Dr. Martin Luther as his little Magdelena expired:
As his daughter lay very ill, Dr. Luther said: "I love her very much, but dear God, if it be Thy will to take her, I submit to Thee." Then he said to her as she lay in bed: "Magdalene, my dear little daughter, would you like to stay here with your father, or would you willingly go to your Father yonder?" She answered: "Darling father, as God wills." Then he said, "Dearest child, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." Then he turned away and said: "I love her very much; if my flesh is so strong, what can my spirit do? God has given no bishop so great a gift in a thousand years as he has given me in her. I am angry with myself that I cannot rejoice in heart and be thankful as I ought."...Now as Magadalene lay in agony of death, her father fell down before the bed on his knees and wept bitterly and prayed that God might free her. Then she departed and fell asleep in her father's arms. As they laid her in the coffin he said: "Darling Lena, you will rise and shine like a star, yea, like the sun. I am happy in spirit, but the flesh is sorrowful and will not be content, the parting grieves me beyond measure. I have sent a saint to heaven." At her burial when the lid of the coffin was being hammered shut he was said to have called out, "Hammer away! On Resurrection Day she’ll rise again!”
In this we saints have hope!
