On Easter Sunday as I listened to my sister sing in church, a memory came of holding her crying child.  Unable to calm the tears, I turned the baby away from me and began to sing.  Her mother and I do not sound the same when we talk, but when we sing, there are so many similarities in our voices that her child stopped crying to listen.  The sound of mother’s voice brought safety and peace.

We live in a world with many voices and endless noise competing for our attention.  The cacophony can cause confusion and tears.  As His children, we may not all sound and look the same, but when we “sing the song of redeeming love” we sound like the Father of us all.  Whether that song is sung in the power of His word, in our witness of His Son, in an act of kindness, with patience or long suffering, rejoicing in forgiveness and truth our voice can echo the familiar notes of our heavenly home resonating in our hearts and the hearts of our brothers and sisters.  “We are…children of the living God who loves us, who is always ready to forgive us, and who will never, ever forsake us….We have so much to be glad about.  We have each other and we have Him.” (Elder Jeffry R. Holland, April 2022)