My youngest brother, Eric, heard this song while visiting a different wards primary while on a trip. He loved the song, and after returning home he requested to sing it in primary by telling the primary chorister. This became a tender mercy in the lives of my family. For when Eric passed away recently after this experience my family was unaware of this song, "Gethsemane" and his interest in it. Informed shortly after, my older brother Kyle and I prepared to sing a duet of this song at the funeral with my sister-in-law at the piano.
This song brings comfort and love along with a greater understanding of Christ's sacrifice and suffering in the garden. "Gethsemane" brings a visual picture and story to accompany Jesus to the garden where he would bleed from every pore and suffer for the sins of all mankind. Through this process Christ creates the opportunity for us to return home to our father in heaven and see our loved ones again. Families are eternal!
Love, Melissa
P.S. Here's the lyrics and after there's a quote from the church website about "Gethsemane"
Jesus climbed the hill
To the garden still
His steps were heavy and slow
Love and a prayer
Took Him there
To the place only He could go
Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So He went willingly
To Gethsemane
He felt all that was sad, wicked or bad
All the pain we would ever know
While His friends were asleep
He fought to keep
His promise made long ago
Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So He went willingly
To Gethsemane
The hardest thing that ever was done
The greatest pain that ever was known
The biggest battle that ever was won
This was done by Jesus
The fight was won by Jesus
Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So He gave His gift to me
In Gethsemane
Gethsemane
Jesus loves me
So He gives His gift to me
From Gethsemane
"Gethsemane lay still and dark; creation watched in silent awe
As Jesus suffered His Father’s will to satisfy unyielding law.
He knelt in earnest prayer alone. His friends, o’ercome with sorrow, slept.
Beneath the burden of grief, He groaned; beneath the weight of sin he wept,
And with his blood so freely spent, He bought my soul; He paid my debt.
What work of love was wrought for me in the stillness of Gethsemane!
“This bitter cup wilt thou remove? Yet not my will, but Thine be done.”
Behold His anguish, and weep anew for love of Christ, the sinless one.
With His wounds my own are healed; my ev’ry pain o’ercome in His,
My shame, my weakness, my grief untold find ranson in His priceless gift.
For with his blood so freely spent, He bought my soul; He paid my debt.
What work of love was wrought for me in the stillness of Gethsemane!"
https://www.lds.org/music/text/other/gethsemane?lang=eng
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