The Next Time

The next time you feel sorrow,
Pain, or rejection.
Look to the Lord and borrow
Love for reflection.

Desire becomes belief
As strength, He sends
The hurt soul feels relief
And the heart mends

  [Verse 1]

The next time you feel sorrow, Pain, or rejection, Look to the Lord and borrow Love for reflection. [Chorus] Desire becomes belief As strength, He sends The hurt soul feels relief And the heart mends. [Verse 2] When every answer trembles And hope feels thin, His quiet mercy gathers The scattered heart within. [Chorus] Desire becomes belief As strength, He sends The hurt soul feels relief And the heart mends. [Bridge] Turn your face toward kindness, Lay your burden down; What was broken in the waiting Finds its healing ground. [Final Chorus] Desire becomes belief As strength, He sends The hurt soul feels relief And the heart mends. [Outro] Look to the Lord and borrow Love for reflection.

The Eleventh of September

The eleventh of September

We will always remember

As the day the ugly face of hatred

Left our hearts and country scarred and wounded

Darkness fell upon our nation

Such terror, death and destruction

Thousands of innocent perished

Still the heroic efforts we cherish

For shining through the overcast of fear

As a nation we turned towards the Prince of Peace

And prayed for the families suffering in loss

We vowed to remain a land of freedom, no matter the cost

May the peace of the Redeemer rest upon us

May His healing power mend broken hearts

May our beloved nation be restored, thus

To be a place of peace, as in God we trust

On Sept. 11, 2001, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, then known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, was scheduled to give a concert for the National Association of Insurance and Financial Underwriters.

But following the tragic terrorist attacks on the East Coast, the concert was changed to a memorial service, at which President Gordon B. Hinckley spoke:

"Today has been a day that will be remembered always in the annals of our beloved nation,” he said. “It has been a day when the ugly face of hatred has shown itself with terror, death and destruction. It has been a day when uncounted numbers of the innocent have perished and their loved ones have been left to sorrow. Many have been wounded, and this, our nation, has been seriously injured and insulted.

Despite the darkness of the hour, President Hinckley said, “there is shining through the heavy overcast of fear and anger the solemn and wonderful image of the Son of God, the Savior of the world, the Prince of Peace, the Exemplar of universal love, and it is to Him that we look in these circumstances.

Our hearts are broken, our spirits subdued,” President Hinckley said. “We bow before the Almighty in reverence and reach out to those who have lost their lives, to their families and to those who were wounded in the attacks made against our beloved nation.

May the peace of the Redeemer rest upon us, May His healing power mend the broken hearts and give strength to the wounded bodies and minds of all who have paid so great a price because of the evil acts of those who have injured us and betrayed the entire civilized world.

May the sure hand of Providence guide the destinies of our nation, that it may remain a land of freedom, peace, goodwill, and yet a nation of power and strength.

Our Heavenly Father will hasten the day when men everywhere across this broad earth will ‘beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more’” (Isaiah 2:4).

( The Church News )