“Tears at the passing of good people are the price we pay for love in this world. We realize how precious these people are to us and how precious their lives have been, so it is very easy to see why they are indeed ‘precious in the sight of the Lord.’ In that sense, even as we feel such loss in our lives, how joyful it must be for that person, other loved ones and the Lord Himself to have such a joyful reunion beyond the veil. Nothing is more ‘precious’ than a humble, worthy, loving life. How grateful we should be, then, when the Lord will say to such an one, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant…enter thou into the joy of the Lord.’ It is worth letting them go in order for them to behold that face and hear those words.”