Jacob 5:41; D&C 76:26; Moses 7:28-29
“A choice bishop share[d] with others in a meeting … concerning the loss of his wife to cancer… . Twenty years earlier he had watched his mother pass through severe suffering before she died, and he had carried with him through the years a sense of resentment for the anguish she had endured. With his wife’s ordeal, however, harsh as it was for her … his anger sublimated into a closer spiritual relationship with the Lord, and he was able more gracefully to share her burden. Shortly before she died, his wife asked him to give her a blessing for relief from the intense pain. They both wept as he laid his hands on her head and talked with the Lord, ‘and,’ he said, ‘I felt the spiritual presence of our Father in Heaven. I had the strongest sensation that someone else was there weeping with us!’ Near the end, severely physically debilitated, she said, ‘Never have I been more whole!’ The strong sensation that He was there, ‘weeping with us.’ Of course; why not? Jesus wept at the grave of Lazarus; he wept over Jerusalem’s portending afflictions; and he wept when he came to the American continent and knelt with his people, and especially when ‘he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.’ (3 Ne. 17:21; see also v. 22; John 11:35; Luke 19:41).” (Marion D. Hanks, Ensign, Nov. 1992, pp. 64-65)