make us glad on this planet of tears.

"All we can remember is that frown on your face.
Is that all we're ever going to get?
We live for seventy years or so
(with luck we might make it to eighty),
And what do we have to show for it? Trouble.
Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard. "
[psalm 90:9-10] message

death and pain are inseparable. it is a part of the cycle of life.