"Where can I turn for peace?
Where is my solace when other sources cease to make me whole?
When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice,
I draw myself apart, Searching my soul?
Where, when my aching grows, Where, when I languish,
Where in my need to know, where can I run?
Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish?
Who, who can understand? He, only One.
He answers privately, Reaches my reaching
In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.
Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.
Constant he is and kind, Love without end."
Where Can I Turn for Peace (Hymn 129)
I love this song. It is exactly how I feel about when I need my Savior in what the song calls, "my Gethsemane." In the deep dark times when I feel hopeless, my Savior is the only One to give me a reprieve.
I have developed a personal relationship with my Savior in a way I have never before. I probably should have with the difficult trials I faced when I was younger, but I never leaned on Him for the things that were just hard. I have used the Atonement for sin of course, but until now I don't think I realized that my pain, no matter what causes it, can be taken from me if I am willing to ask.
In the moments of despair I am not left there long and quickly swept up in His loving arms that shield me from the pain that explodes like bombs around me. How grateful I am for His love for us. It was love that caused Him to suffer terribly in Gethsemane. Love me, love for you, and love for our Heavenly Father that He was able to complete the most difficult trial that has been asked of anyone to go through. He is truly, "Love without end."
