Peace

As I make breakfast, load the dishwasher and wash a few dishes my mind is caught up in thoughts of the Boston Marathon this week and the tragic bombings that occurred.  I remember the feelings and emotions that I felt when I sat and watched the Twin Towers collapse and crumble.  I remember the feelings of helplessness and wanting to make the pain and suffering stop.  And some of those same feelings and thoughts emerge yet again as I watched clips and footage of the race.

So many people were hurt.  So many lives altered.  So much sadness.

A hymn plays in my mind as I listen to a talk...
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 my self 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.

As I think on these things I am so thankful for a loving Savior who is the only true source of peace in our earthly lives.  We can get through these horrific acts of terror and move on and find peace and joy in our lives.  It will not be easy.  But it is possible.

A conference talk from this month's General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints talks of peace and where to find it.  Elder Quentin L. Cook does a beautiful job explaining how we can find peace in his talk entitled Personal Peace: The Reward of Righteousness.

I am so thankful for a loving Savior.