Never really know how much our children will understand.
But, find out. then go from there.
Keep it simple. Keep it truth. Reasurre them that they are loved by gramps and by you.
Let them feel that which they will feel. They need this to grow. Be there for them.
Perhaps give them a keepsake of gramps. Tie clip, lapel pin, pictures, your poem.
Just be there for them. Let them learn from you how to be compassionate. How to
be there for someone else, in the future. who knows, maybe they'll be the ones being there for you?
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I leave you, my sister, with this, which a good friend has shared with me:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, (Passed on from this realm to the next) that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the ArchAngel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together WITH THEM in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we EVER be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Continue to comfort with TRUTH ...
May you know the Lord's peace.
Timothy