Where can I turn for peace?

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,

Reaching my reaching

In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend

Gentle the peace he finds for  my beseeching.

Constant he is and kind,

Love without end.

This week has again thrown a curve-  we are seeing more and more violence and senseless killings in our nation.  I am grateful for my testimony of the Savior and of eternal families.  The theme this year for our youth seems very fitting- "Peace in Christ".  It has been amazing to see how many times we have gone back and talked about where you will find peace- that it comes through Christ.   

A couple weeks ago, we had an active shooter in our neighborhood and we were on house lock down, which was a very surreal feeling.  If you wanted to leave the neighborhood you were supposed to have a police escort.  The following week my children were on lock down in their school- which was scary.  We have had several suicides in the high school- Yesterday there was a kid at the school that was in a tragic accident, and there was also a shooting in a high school in Florida where 17 children were shot and killed, and several others  are in critical condition in nearby hospitals.  I have had several conversations with the youth in our ward and my own children about how they feel with all of these things going on.   We truly are in the last days.  They know where they can find peace.  I have been amazed at the things that they have shared with me- the way that they find peace in Christ.  They sing songs, they read scripture, they text family, they pray.  They have been saved for these last days- 

I have thought so much about what the media is focused on- is it all about gun control, or is it all about mental health?  They are blaming one or the other.  It is some of both, and yet I believe there is more.  Satan has gotten hold of hearts, and the light of Christ has been lost.  It has been sad to see these grieving families.  The only way they will find true and lasting peace will be through our Savior Jesus Christ.  He can reach and heal broken hearts.  

I hope and pray that these families who have lost loved ones will feel peace.  I can't imagine how difficult this is for them.  I will end the way I began- I am grateful to know that there is Peace in Christ.  I know that the peace we find in Christ is different than the peace that this world has to offer.  I know that He can calm anguish souls, He understands, He is constant and kind.... He is love without end.