This is not the pain of eternity
It is but the pain of a moment
A moment that will not last forever
Nothing does
Nothing can
But it is in this pain we find what has meaning
To avoid pain is to avoid what it means to truly live

Death haunts the living
'Walking in the valley'

Over yonder hill
'An unseen mystery'

Something good waits
'To hear your footsteps'

Someone good waits
'To sing of loves victory'.

Every day is a new chapter in the book of life. In it, we're all minor characters. Its backstory is a fiction.
It's a story that will never come to a conclusion.
It speaks for itself, regardless of whether anyone is present or not.

I" is the darkest
 ravine into which one 
can plunge in life.