*Kobe Bryant’s remains have been recovered from the site where his helicopter crashed on Sunday, killing his teen daughter Gianna and seven others, including the pilot.
Funeral plans have not been publicly announced, as fans and Bryant’s friends and colleagues continue to grieve over his sudden passing.
Many are expressing their heartfelt condolences to Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, who is honoring her late husband and daughter with a new profile pic on her Instagram. It’s the first public move she’s made since their deaths.
We previously reported… an insider tells PEOPLE that, as expected, Vanessa is “devastated.”
“I think it is your faith that gets you through those unexplainable moments and I think you have to realize as terrible and as tragic as it was – we’re grateful his wife wasn’t on board we are grateful the whole family wasn’t on board,” says Bishop TD Jakes in a an interview with The Breakfast Club about suffer loss and grieving amid the Kobe tragedy.
“Look for things that are positive in the midst of the pain, not denying the pain but I look for things that are positive,” he said.
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When co-host Charlamagne Tha God asked, “Why do the righteous always have to suffer?”
Jakes explains, “Everybody suffers, everybody suffers. The emblem of Christianity is a cross; that’s a big warning. That if god spared not his son he’s not going to spare you. Everybody goes through suffering. Not just the righteous, the ungodly – everybody. That just the one thing we all have in common – no matter how rich you are, no matter how poor you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter whether you’re homeless and living in a mansion — we were all born and we are all going to die. That’s the one thing we all – and that’s the great common denominator that stops you from arrogance and recognizes humanity and the brotherhood of man kind – is that our time is just for a moment.”
“Yeah, death does not discriminate at all,” Charalamagne says.
“It almost seems like keeping it moving after death seems insensitive. So, how do you keep it moving?” he asks.
“You have to keep it moving because life keeps moving; because bills keep moving, threats keep moving. Problems don’t stop because you’re in pain,” Jakes replies. “And so sometimes the therapy is in keeping it moving. But of course when you’re the family you have to shut down for a minute and breathe and recalibrate. And it may be over the next two years or 20 years that you feel that pain. My mother died in 99 and if I think about it hard I’ll get emotional. And I don’t even want that to go away. I don’t want that to go away because sometimes the sadness validates the value of what you loss.”
He adds, “The sadness; the greater the sadness – it’s the indication the greater the love. Some people don’t feel sadness because they don’t feel love. If you’re a great lover, you have great pain when people leave your life. And some of that sticks around in your life just to say you were important to me. You know I don’t want to get to the point where I don’t fee it anymore. I miss her, you know. And we miss Kobe, we miss whoever we love. We miss them. And to the degree we miss them we feel that pain and that pain in many ways is a tribute to the significance of that individual in your life.”
Scroll up and watch the full interview via the YouTube clip above.
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