This is What Life is About

I read the words of the LDS hymn 'Lean on My Ample Arm' tonight and I tell you what...its message is what life is about. It is powerful and sweet.

"Lean on my ample arm, O thou depressed! And I will bid the storm cease in thy breast. Whate'er thy lot may be on life's complaining sea, if thou wilt come to me, thou shalt have rest. If thou wilt come to me, thou shalt have rest.

Lift up thy tearful eyes, sad heart, to me; I am the sacrifice offered for thee. In me thy pain shall cease, in me is thy release, in me thou shalt have peace eternally. In me thou shalt have peace eternally."

I love it. I love it, I love it, I love it.

I am amazed at Jesus' infinite Atonement and how He can constantly and continuously and eternally take my burdens from me. HE bids the storm cease in my heart. HE gives me rest on my life's complaining sea. HE lifts up my tearful eyes and my sad heart to the hope of his sacrifice for me. HE takes my pain, HE releases me from it. HE gives me peace. EVERY TIME. Every Single Time. That alone makes me weep. I have pain a lot. I turn my tearful eyes and sad heart to him a lot. And He takes it every time. He will do this eternally. Forever and Ever. He is Endless and Eternal. These names He has make me think of this little song.

Let me just tell you, I know He lives. I KNOW HE LIVES. Eternal and Endless. Provider and King. I know that He is our release, our rest, our peace, and that all this is because He offered himself for us. All he wants us to do is to come to him, to give him all of our burdens and all of our fears and all of our pains so that we can better know him. He just wants us to trust him and to love him and to let him take everything that he suffered for on our behalf.

His arm is ample.