Tender Mercies: Tender Mercies

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Tender Mercies

We got to play today with Tayler, Matthew, and Grandma & Grandpa. It was so much fun! Grandma had the great idea to go to Kangaroo Zoo, and after Ellie figured out what she could do, she had a great time. Good thing Tayler was there, because she was able to help Ellie climb ladders and go down slides!

These 3 spent a lot of time like this!

Driving home, I was struck anew with gratitude and love for our birth mothers and their families. They are such tender mercies in my life! Where would I be without Tayler or M, or Ellie or Lynlee? I do not know how to describe the joy that I feel daily as a result of these beautiful women. Their choice to place E & L in our family is a decision I do not take lightly, and I honor them for it.

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I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord’s timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them....I believe I have come to better understand that the Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ....When words cannot provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance (see 1 Ne. 1:20).

David A. Bednar, “The Tender Mercies of the Lord,” Ensign, May 2005, 99