Next stop, Wonderland.
What we have is a promise. A wonderful promise of eternal bliss in Heaven. A promise from God that even though we say goodbye to our loved ones in this world, we will meet again soon in a much better world, so much better that we with our finite minds cannot begin to comprehend.
So this is not really goodbye. We cry and we mourn, but we know this is not goodbye.
I will see you again, A.