Sister Sheri Peterson
Ward Music Director
"Who of us has not had Gethsemane times?" asked Emma Lou Thayne, author of this hymn. "And how often has each of us reached for the calm and the kindness that only the Savior can offer?" The honest and touching words of this hymn can help in difficult moments - first, because they help us realize that all men and women experience such moments, and second, because they remind us of the ultimate source of comfort and solace. In 1971, the author and the composer, Joleen G. Meredith, then members of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association General Board, were asked to write a musical number for a Laurel conference, and this hymn is the result. The words to the hymn came to the author out of a troubled time for her family when their byword of "Pray at night, plan in the morning" had turned into "Pray all the time."
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