Thank you for telling them about our sympathy and prayers.
This is going to be tough to overcome, but God provides a way.
When I spoke to her I thought it important to pass it on to her how people here felt. When my son died, some lady I did not even know, from two states away, sent us a card with a very pretty poem, and expressing her sympathies. How she even knew about our son dying I’ve never known. But I do remember how touched we were to know that someone out there cared enough about complete strangers to go to the trouble of sending the card. It meant a lot to us, and we still have that card in our memory box today. (Our memory box is a black trunk that we keep all our most precious stuff in.. family pics and such. It sits by our front door, so if there is ever a fire or something, it is the one and only possession I intend to grab on the way out.)