Isaiah 57:1-2

"The righteous will perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death"

I found this verse after Clay passed away and clung onto it. After Gramma passed away I looked for it, but couldn't find it and had gotten a new Bible and so it wasn't highlighted. Mr. Cloy passed away last night, and I know that it was in God's perfect plan to have me find this verse again as I was reading this morning. The part that says "the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil" is especially meaningful to me, it isn't necessarily a "reason" to say, but it is something tangible for me to look at, read, memorize, and fall back on every time the question "why?" pops into my head.