Dealing with Death: Sunday Will Come, Hope Works

Jennie knows the tormenting pain of personal tragedy. Three deaths left her wondering each time how she would ever surviveher father, who took his own life when she was young; her 15yearold brotherinlaw, who laughed and played with the family on Saturday night, then committed suicide the next day; and her husband, who died exactly seven years later in military combat in the Middle East. When she received news of her husbands death, she wondered how she would raise her seven children. It was grief beyond belief. The darkness of the night enveloped everything. Tell me this nightmare will end, she thought. During these times of great grief, three words kept coming to her mind: Sunday will come. They were words from a general conference talk shed heard years earlier. She knew it was not just any Sunday, but Easter Sundaythe Sunday of the Resurrection, the Sunday of hope.