It is always sad when we lose a family member or acquaintance to death but it is a fact of life.
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
It is also a glorious thing when you know that the one who has passed over, in this case Richard A. Heisler, has been saved to life sublime because he repented and became a child of God by accepting by faith the fact that Christ Jesus died for him. That made him not only my brother in law but my brother in Christ and I am promised to spend eternity with him in God’s Heaven. Thanks be to Jesus the author and finisher of my faith.
1 Thessalonians 4: 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 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.
16 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:
17 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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.